All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.
-- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Dramatis Personae" (Autobiog. 1936)
-- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Dramatis Personae" (Autobiog. 1936)
Related:
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats, "The Second... - Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler... - Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler... - The man who understands one woman
is qualified to understand pretty well everything.
William Butler... - The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they
are sober.
William Butler... - Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious
truth,
passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius... - Many times man lives and dies
Between his two eternities.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Under Ben Bulben"... - Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery,
hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping... - I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and
child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and
harlots.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)...
