4 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Culture

William Butler Yeats quotes on culture

14. The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste.

15. Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

161. Down the mountain walls From where pan's cavern is Intolerable music falls. Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear, Belly, shoulder, bum, Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs Copulate in the foam.

171. Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.