Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
More Quotes from William Butler Yeats:
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.William Butler Yeats
Words alone are certain good.
William Butler Yeats
If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.
William Butler Yeats
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats
In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude.
William Butler Yeats
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
William Butler Yeats
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Love QuotesBased on Keywords: emblems
Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
Daniel Yergin
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
Mary Timony