"A thought Of that late death took..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
More by William Butler Yeats
“A passion-driven exultant man sings outSentences that he has never thought.”
“There where the course is,Delight makes all of the one mind,The riders upon the galloping horses,The crowd that closes in behind.”
“For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.”
More on Death
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”
“Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.”
“Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love. Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.”
More on Emotion
“Sing it not in mournful numbers.”
“Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.”
“There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.”