Selected Poems and Four Plays Quotes

“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays

“Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays

“I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes, But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows, And give his own and take his own And rule in his own right; And though it loved in misery Close and cling so tight, There’s not a bird of day that dare Extinguish that delight.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems And Four Plays

“I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays