• Categories
  • William Butler Yeats Quotes   591
  • Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Nature Quotes , Past Quotes
  • A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Journey Quotes , Men Quotes