Quotes by Yeats, William Butler

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick >>

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeis >>

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emp >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. >>

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completen >>

These have not the hope to die. >>

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Yeats, William Butler