All things Quote by William Butler Yeats

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering…

— Anonymous

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

— Anthony Doerr

“I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts. The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper…

— Carl Sandburg

“The slate black sky. The middle step of the back porch. And long ago my mother's necklace, the beads rolling north and south. Broken…

— Dorianne Laux

No more lightning to harness, All out of thread, Last of my Lego's, No more glue, Or duct tape, Love's Champion, Her Fool, Falls,…

— Eric Nickel

Broken dreams, New or old, Crumble like dust, Beneath heavens fold, True beauty, Lies within, the saddest tears, of painful sin

— Victoria Dawn Monks

I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds oflambs, the…

— Federico García Lorca

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in…

— Kami Garcia

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them…

— Anne Sexton

“Each October I walk into the woods looking for bones: rabbit skulls, a grackle spine, the pelvis of a deer with the blood bleached…

— Charles Rafferty

Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.

— Ann Petry

Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all…

— Howard Nemerov