The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (95 page)

The golden apples of the sun.

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) "Song of Wandering Aengus"

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:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

The light of evening, Lissadell,

Great windows open to the south,

Two girls in silk kimonos, both

Beautiful, one a gazelle.

The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

The innocent and the beautiful

Have no enemy but time.

The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

Nor dread nor hope attend

A dying animal;

A man awaits his end

Dreading and hoping all.

The Winding Stair (1929) "Death"

He knows death to the bone--

Man has created death.

The Winding Stair (1929) "Death"

What lively lad most pleasured me

Of all that with me lay?

I answer that I gave my soul

And loved in misery,

But had great pleasure with a lad

That I loved bodily.

Flinging from his arms I laughed

To think his passion such

He fancied that I gave a soul

Did but our bodies touch,

And laughed upon his breast to think

Beast gave beast as much.

The Winding Stair (1929) "A Woman Young and Old" pt. 9

We were the last romantics--chose for theme

Traditional sanctity and loveliness;

Whatever's written in what poets name

The book of the people; whatever most can bless

The mind of man or elevate a rhyme;

But all is changed, that high horse riderless,

Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode

Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.

The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) "Coole and Ballylee, 1931"

A woman can be proud and stiff

When on love intent;

But Love has pitched his mansion in

The place of excrement;

For nothing can be sole or whole

That has not been rent.

The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) "Crazy Jane Talks with the

Bishop"

A starlit or a moonlit dome distains

All that man is;

All mere complexities,

The fury and the mire of human veins.

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Byzantium"

Those images that yet

Fresh images beget,

That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Byzantium"

While on the shop and street I gazed

My body of a sudden blazed;

And twenty minutes more or less

It seemed, so great my happiness,

That I was bless�d and could bless.

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Vacillation"

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.

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Coole Park and Ballylee,

1932"

Only God, my dear,

Could love you for yourself alone

And not your yellow hair.

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Anne Gregory"

Swift has sailed into his rest;

Savage indignation there

Cannot lacerate his breast.

Imitate him if you dare,

World-besotted traveller; he

Served human liberty.

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Swift's Epitaph"

Out of Ireland have we come.

Great hatred, little room,

Maimed us at the start.

I carry from my mother's womb

A fanatic heart.

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Remorse for Intemperate

Speech"

What were all the world's alarms

To mighty Paris when he found

Sleep upon a golden bed

That first night in Helen's arms?

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Lullaby"

24.3 Jack Yellen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1892-1958

Happy days are here again!

The skies above are clear again.

Let us sing a song of cheer again,

Happy days are here again!

Happy Days Are Here Again (1929 song; music by Milton Ager)

I'm the last of the red-hot mamas.

Title of song (1928; popularized by Sophie Tucker)

24.4 Michael Young =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1915-

The rise of the meritocracy 1870-2033.

Title of book (1958)

24.5 Waldemar Young et al. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

We have ways of making men talk.

Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935 film; the words became a catch-phrase as

"We have ways of making you talk")

25.0 Z =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

25.1 Darryl F. Zanuck =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1902-1979

For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.

In Philip French The Movie Moguls (1969) ch. 5

25.2 Emiliano Zapata =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1879-1919

Muchos de ellos, por complacer a tiranos, por un pu�ado de monedas, o por

cohecho o soborno, est�n derramando la sangre de sus hermanos.

Many of them, so as to curry favour with tyrants, for a fistful of coins,

or through bribery or corruption, are shedding the blood of their

brothers.

Plan de Ayala 28 Nov. 1911, para. 10 (referring to the maderistas who, in

Zapata's view, had betrayed the revolutionary cause)

25.3 Frank Zappa =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1940-

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't

talk for people who can't read.

In Linda Botts Loose Talk (1980) p. 177

25.4 Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Robert Zemeckis 1952-

Bob Gale 1952-

Back to the future.

Title of film (1985)

25.5 Ronald L. Ziegler =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1939-

Reminded of the President's previous statements that the White House was

not involved [in the Watergate affair], Ziegler said that Mr Nixon's

latest statement "is the Operative White House Position...and all previous

statements are inoperative."

Boston Globe 18 Apr. 1973

25.6 Grigori Zinoviev =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Armed warfare must be preceded by a struggle against the inclinations to

compromise which are embedded among the majority of British workmen,

against the ideas of evolution and peaceful extermination of capitalism.

Only then will it be possible to count upon complete success of an armed

insurrection.

Letter to the British Communist Party, 15 Sept. 1924, in The Times 25 Oct.

1924 (the "Zinoviev Letter," said by some to be a forgery: see Listener

17 Sept. 1987)