Beast Quote by William Butler Yeats

“ . . . after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be…

— W. B. Yeats

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

— William Butler Yeats

The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

— Phillips Brooks

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed…

— W.B. Yeats

I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is...that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Who complains of want? of wounds?…

— Thomas Dekker

The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive…

— Alice Morse Earle

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

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Novalis

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings.

— William Shakespeare