The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

Words are for those with promises to keep.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.