"Love comes in at the eye...." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
Love comes in at the eye.
More by William Butler Yeats
“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
“Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.”
“It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.”
More on Love
“Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.”
“Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.”
“I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.”
More on Perception
“You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.”
“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.”