I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler YeatsI believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away... and the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them.
William Butler YeatsLocke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
William Butler YeatsThis melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats