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Faces Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.
- Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in…
- What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
- ...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...
- ...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…
- When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
- If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after…
- Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all…
- I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me
- I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world,…
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