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William Butler Yeats quotes

Irish Poet June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

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Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny. To find out if I might love.'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.'Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough. To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love. Till the stars had run away. And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One... William Butler Yeats
Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair. By those great honey-coloured. Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone. And not your yellow hair. William Butler Yeats
O bid me mount and sail up there. Amid the cloudy wrack, For Peg and Meg and Paris' love. That had so straight a back, Are gone away, and some that stay. Have changed their silk for sack. William Butler Yeats
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass. Cannot but keep the form. Where the mountain hare has lain.- Memory William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "For he would be thinking of love. Till the stars had run away...."
For he would be thinking of love. Till the stars had run away. And the shadows eaten the moon. William Butler Yeats
And no more turn aside and brood. Upon love's bitter mystery; For Fergus rules the brazen cars, And rules the shadows of the wood, And the white breast of the dim sea. And all disheveled wandering stars. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye;..."
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. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the..."
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Everything that's lovely is. But a brief, dreamy kind of delight."
Everything that's lovely is. But a brief, dreamy kind of delight. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Love comes in at the eye."
Love comes in at the eye. William Butler Yeats
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not..."
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal..."
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities. Than in our love William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "And what if excess of love. Bewildered them till they died?"
And what if excess of love. Bewildered them till they died? William Butler Yeats

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