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William Butler Yeats Quotes

That beautiful mild woman for whose sake. There's many a one shall find out all heartache. On finding that her voice is sweet and low. Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know-Although they do not talk of it at school -That we must labor to be beautiful.

William Butler Yeats

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