Quote #167
Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
More from William Butler Yeats
- Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
- Irish poets, earn your trade, Sing whatever is well made, Scorn the sort now growing up All out of shape from toe to top, Their unrememberi…
- I have found nothing half so good As my long-planned half solitude, Where I can sit up half the night With some friend that has the wit Not…
- Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
- Because there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible to a man of sense.
- No marble, no conventional phrase; On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on deat…
- A bloody and a sudden end, Gunshot or a noose, For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
- Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.