William Butler Yeats Quotes About Love
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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.
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Who mocks at music mocks at love.
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Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?
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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray
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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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