William Butler Yeats Quotes

Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that.

- William Butler Yeats

Tags

Civilization | Hoped | Brought | Rule | Semblance |

comments powered by Disqus

Random

And say my glory was I had such friends. - William Butler Yeats

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ. - William Butler Yeats