Quotes of the Week - August 18, 2008:
"Eat, sleep and swim. That's all I can do." -- Olympic champion
Michael Phelps explains the secret of his success, a lot of eggs in
a 12,000 calories a day diet.
"The world just got a little less funny." -- George Clooney's
reaction to the death of his friend, comedian Bernie Mac, 50.
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia
can invade its neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and
get away with it. Things have changed." -- Condoleezza Rice on
military clashes between Russia and Georgia.
"They are steeped in sin and, if eaten long enough for in quantity,
will almost certainly kill you." -- Actress Emma Thompson on the
scourge of potato crisps.
Authors: William Butler Yeats Quotes - Famous W. B. Yeats Quotes, Quotations
I
write it out in a verse -
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born. William Butler Yeats Easter, 1916
The
rhetorician would deceive his neighbors,
The sentimentalist himself; while art
Is but a vision of realty. William Butler Yeats Ego Dominus Tuus
The
fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. William Butler Yeats The Fascination of What's Difficult.
The
beating down of the wise
And great Art beaten down. William Butler Yeats The Fisherman
A
man who does not exist,
A man who is but a dream. William Butler Yeats The Fisherman
One
Poem maybe as cold
And passionate as the dawn. William Butler Yeats The Fisherman
Never
to have lived is best, ancient writers say;
Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked
into the eye of day;
The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away. William Butler Yeats Oedipus at Colonus (of Sophocles)
Had
I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet. William Butler Yeats He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
But
I, being, poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
The
ghost of Roger Casement
Is beating at the door. William Butler Yeats The Ghost of Roger Casement
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