Quote #91
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
More from William Butler Yeats
- Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all.
- O when may it suffice? That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name.
- Hearts with one purpose alone Through summer and winter, seem Enchanted to a stone To trouble the living stream.
- I write it out in a verse- MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, chang…
- This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vain-glorious lout. He had done most bitter wrong To some who are near my heart, Yet I number him i…
- Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
- All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
- May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beau…