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

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)

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'

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

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

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

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

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

William Butler Yeats
Love, Hair, Yellow
'Anne Gregory'

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

William Butler Yeats
Love, Discipline, Fine
"Memoirs".

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

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

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 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"

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

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

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"

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”

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

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

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

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