4 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Ambition

William Butler Yeats quotes on ambition

60. Have you made greatness your companion, Although it be for children that you sigh: These are the clouds about the fallen sun, The majesty that shuts his burning eye.

119. Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the levelling wind.

124. Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

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.