William Butler Yeats Quotes on Human condition
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But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
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I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch, A blind man battering blind men; Or into that most fecund ditch of all, The folly that man does Or must suffer, if he woos A proud woman not kindred of his soul.
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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.