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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

William Butler Yeats
Tired, Heart, Hands
William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.215

Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Big Heart, Bigs
William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Dust, Feet
William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats
Life, Heart, World
William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.

William Butler Yeats
Nature, Heart, Moon
William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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 in the deep heart's core.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Loss, Lakes
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

William Butler Yeats
Flower, Heart, Rose
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin

When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

William Butler Yeats
Blessed, Heart, Laughing
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

William Butler Yeats
Eye, Heart, Dark
1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

William Butler Yeats
Stars, Twilight, Heart
William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Corporation

I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Two, What Matters
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

William Butler Yeats
Fear, Heart, Night
William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Body, Tranquility
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Tree, Growing
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.139, Penguin

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

William Butler Yeats
Summer, Heart, Winter
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

William Butler Yeats
Lying, Heart, Rags
Last Poems (1939) "The Circus Animals' Desertion" pt. 3

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 wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"

William Butler Yeats
Wise, Heart, Eye
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

William Butler Yeats
Twilight, Heart, Sadness
'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death'

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Night, Lakes
The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Substance, Enmity
The Cat and the Moon (1924) "Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

William Butler Yeats
Dream, Heart, Kissing
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

I hear it in the deep heart's core.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Deep Heart, Core
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

William Butler Yeats
Mother, Heart, Wind
William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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

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.

William Butler Yeats
Mother, Heart, Hatred
Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"

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