"I knew that I had seen, had..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
I knew that I had seen, had seen at lastThat girl my unremembering nights hold fastOr else my dreams that flyIf I should rub an eye,And yet in flying fling into my meatA crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.
More by William Butler Yeats
“Education is not filling”
“For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.”
“There where the course is,Delight makes all of the one mind,The riders upon the galloping horses,The crowd that closes in behind.”
More on Love
“He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.”
“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”
“Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments: love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds.”
More on Desire
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
“If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)”
“Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.”