An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve.
More Quotes from William Butler Yeats:
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.William Butler Yeats
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms.
William Butler Yeats
And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
William Butler Yeats
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
William Butler Yeats
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
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