My heart Quotes by William Butler Yeats

10 My heart quotes by William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats’ ten succinct lines on the heart weave mythic imagery with personal longing. Though brief, each phrase carries the weight of his poetic vision.

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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

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The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of…

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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a…

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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…

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A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should…

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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's…

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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them…

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Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me…

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I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my…

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of…

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I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…

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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no…

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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour…

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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I…

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving…

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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women…

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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,…

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide,…

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