...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. - William Butler Yeats

" "
...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.

William Butler Yeats

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

Journalists foster

English

Collect this quote

About William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He compiled the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: W. B. Yeats • William Yeats • W.B. Yeats • WBY

All quotes from William Butler Yeats Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like William Butler Yeats:

Lord Byron Alfred Tennyson John Keats Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Additional quotes by William Butler Yeats

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
And Usna's children died.