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Feet Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
- Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light…
- Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
- Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true,…
- Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden…
- Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love…
- Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.
- Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
- They set up a noise like crickets, A chattering wise and sweet, And her hair was a folded flower And the quiet of love in…
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