Poetry Quote by W. B. Yeats

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come…

— William Butler Yeats

“Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night’s beloved in this earthly labour of the day.”

— Novalis

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And…

— William Wordsworth

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And…

— Steven Pressfield

“There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of…

— Richard Dawkins

“When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along;…

— Mark Twain

For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but…

— Frederick Buechner

0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

— Phillips Brooks

“Or, if needing years to wake thee From thy slumbrous solitudes, Come, sleep-walking, and betake thee To the friendly, sleeping woods. Sweeter dreams are…

— George MacDonald

“The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. It is…

— Niall Ferguson

“The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem “The Second Coming” says, “Turning and turning…

— Joseph Campbell

“come, ancient and unchanging night Night, born as dethroned king, Night, internally equal to silence, Night. With sequins of volatile starlight Woven on your…

— Pierre Péju