Source: The Green Helmet And Other Poems
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Famous William Butler Yeats Quotes
“Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: The Complete Works PergamonMedia
“It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: Later Poems
“Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.”
Source: Later Poems
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
“Who mocks at music mocks at love.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherman and Dhoya
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: Early poems and stories
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version
“It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.”
“Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.”
Source: Later Poems
“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”
Source: The Major Works
“One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”