Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors: William Butler Yeats Quotes - Famous W. B. Yeats Quotes, Quotations
I
said 'a line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.' William Butler Yeats Adam's Curse
Better
go down to your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together
Is to work harder than all these. William Butler Yeats Adam's Curse
O
body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we tell the dancer from the dance? William Butler Yeats Among School Children.
Only
God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair. William Butler Yeats Ann Gregory
The
unpurged images of day recede;
The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed. William Butler Yeats Byzantium
A
starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins. William Butler Yeats Byzantium
Those
images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. William Butler Yeats Byzantium
The
intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. William Butler Yeats The Choice
Now
that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. William Butler Yeats The Circus Animals' Desertion
There's
more enterprise
In walking naked. William Butler Yeats A Coat
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