"Too long a sacrifice can make a..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.”

“The Muse is mute when public menApplaud a modern throne.”

“Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”

“I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,To die upon the hand I love so well”

“I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.”

“If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.”

“Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.”

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”