Gone Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude...

— William Butler Yeats

What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

— William Butler Yeats

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor…

— William Butler Yeats

For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

— William Butler Yeats

I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is…

— William Butler Yeats

All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.

— William Butler Yeats

An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted…

— William Butler Yeats

Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss…

— William Butler Yeats

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we…

— William Butler Yeats

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed,…

— William Butler Yeats

Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror…

— William Butler Yeats

...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves…

— William Butler Yeats