A Quote by William Butler Yeats

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

William Butler Yeats

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Bone Down Foul Gone Heart Ladder Ladders Lie Must Now Rag Shop Start

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William Butler Yeats
Irish - Poet
June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

Robert Hass

The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I hate ladders. I don't mind heights, but I hate getting hit with ladders and falling into ladders. Anything where there are ladders involved or inanimate, unpredictable objects or multiple people gets dangerous.

Dean Ambrose

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

John Maynard Keynes

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

E. M. Forster

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

Will Rogers

I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.

Haley Bennett

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.

Ron White

In cop shows, the police don't get to rag on each other and rag on their commander and rag on the person they just pulled over. That was all 'Reno' was, and I think that's all cops do 90 percent of their day.

Robert Ben Garant

Rag 'N' Bone Man is for everybody, like Wu Tang is for the children.

Rag'n'Bone Man

I really like Rag & Bone jeans; I wear a lot of those.

Merritt Patterson

I really like Rag & Bone because they make simple pieces that last.

Alexandra Daddario

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

Stevie Smith

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

William Shakespeare

I grew up in the South Side, and when we would have snow and blizzards and drifts, we would jump off the garage roof into the snow. Now if I'm up on a step ladder and I think I'm going to fall, it's a foot and a half off the ground, but I'm panicked about it. So I'm afraid of ladders and those beds.