Quote #82
They say such different things at school.
More from William Butler Yeats
- Opinion is not worth a rush.
- Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.
- Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes.
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is lo…
- We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are b…
- The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough b…
- Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
- I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod…