Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
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“One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”
“And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
Source: Mythologies
Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
“There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.”
Source: Collected Poems
“What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.”
“Our words must seem to be inevitable.”
Source: Letters