tattered quotes

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Sailing to Byzantium', stanza 8. Collected in TheTower (1928).

1 Quotes found. Displaying quotes 1 through 1

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.