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W.B. Yeats19 quotes
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats · 1920Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled. — W.B. Yeats · 1933A pity beyond all telling
Is hid in the heart of love. — W.B. Yeats · 1893O, who could have foretold
That the heart grows old? — W.B. Yeats · 1919I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. — W.B. Yeats · 1899All 19 quotes →