William Butler Yeats Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

• But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Life, Dream

  "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)

• Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Romantic, Wine

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.70, Library of Alexandria

• Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Hair, Yellow

  'Anne Gregory'

• True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Believe, Self

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

• Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

• 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 earned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Heart, Giving

• And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Kindness, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

• Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Player, Stage

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.181

• Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

• How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Girl, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

• ...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 you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

• A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Life, Dream

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Pity of Love"

• Who mocks at music mocks at love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Love Is, Inequality

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherman and Dhoya”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

• Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Children, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, World, Melancholy

  William Butler Yeats (1925). “Early poems and stories”

• Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Unique, Intellectual

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

• It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Beautiful, World

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.354, Wordsworth Editions

• It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Discipline, Fine

  "Memoirs".

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