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Heart Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice…
- Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
- The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.
- The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be…
- Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
- I hear it in the deep heart's core.
- All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,…
- Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
- O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.
- For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find…
- A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
- What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's…
- I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be…
- I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it…
- Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.…
- I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
- Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.
- Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
- Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
- How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
- A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
- The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
- The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent…
- Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
- ...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and…
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- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
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- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin