4 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Human condition

William Butler Yeats quotes on human condition

117. But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

118. 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.

141. 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.

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.