Quotes by Yeats, William Butler

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, f >>

To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at sch >>

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under >>

Quotations about Nostalgia

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history a >>

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. Wit >>

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy hi >>

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

Yeats, William Butler