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Quotes from In The Seven Woods — William Butler Yeats

1865–1939 Ireland

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O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.

In The Seven Woods (1904)

The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart.

In The Seven Woods (1904)

When they have but looked upon their images--
Would none had ever loved but you and I!

In The Seven Woods (1904)

It’s certain there is no fine thing
Since Adam’s fall but needs much labouring.

In The Seven Woods (1904)

I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.

In The Seven Woods (1904)

For everything that's lovely is
but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.

In The Seven Woods (1904)

And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.

In The Seven Woods (1904)

Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoed
Pale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky,
When the sun looked out of his golden hood?--
O that none ever loved but you and I!

In The Seven Woods (1904)

O hurry to the ragged wood, for there
I will drive all those lovers out and cry—
O my share of the world, O yellow hair!
No one has ever loved but you and I.

In The Seven Woods (1904)

I heard the old, old men say,
'Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.
They had hands like claws, and their knees
Were twisted like the old thorn-trees
By the waters.
I heard the old, old men say,
'All that's beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.

In The Seven Woods (1904)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Butler Yeats (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.