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Dance Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom…
- When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.
- Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a…
- How can we know the dancer from the dance?
- For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance:…
- A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until…
- And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- Who can tell the dancer from the dance?
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