But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Love exists in flawed, humble places because wholeness requires experiencing brokenness.
- In plain terms
- Love lives in dirty places because true wholeness comes from being broken first.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace imperfection and pain as necessary parts of a complete life.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Must you be broken to be whole?
- Where do you find love?
Another view
It romanticizes suffering as a prerequisite for love which may not always be true.
More from William Butler Yeats
'Fair and foul are near of kin, And fair needs foul,' I cried. 'My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.'
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