Friendship Quote by W.B. Yeats

“There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend, And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming, Went walking with slow steps along the…

— W.B. Yeats

“Go gather by the humming sea Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell. And to its lips thy story tell, And they thy comforters will be. Rewording…

— W.B. Yeats

“I sing to him that rests below, And, since the grasses round me wave, I take the grasses of the grave, And make them…

— Alfred Tennyson

“The poems which touched her heart most, suffusing her with exalted emotion, so that she felt she could gather everything to her, were those…

— halldor laxness

“Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and…

— William Wordsworth

“I didn’t know if he was crying for what he’d lost, or for what he’d never had, but there was a beauty in his…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Everywhere, it seemed, in the tress and water and sky, a great worldwide sadness came pressing down on me, a crushing sorrow, sorrow like…

— Tim O'Brien

“LAUGH, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble…

— Bruno LoGreco

I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon…

— Frederick Douglass

“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,…

— Thomas Hardy

“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where the love-lorn…

— John Milton

“They were galloping...Bare level plain had taken the place of the scrub and they'd been cantering briskly, the foals prancing delightedly ahead, when suddenly…

— Malcolm Lowry