"Though I have many words,What woman's satisfied,I..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
Though I have many words,What woman's satisfied,I am no longer faintBecause at her side?O who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?
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“From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.”
“Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”
“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”
More on Aging
“The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.”
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
“I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.”