William Butler Yeats Quotes

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live.

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.

And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable.

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

I'm not going anywhere, not without Chloe." Derek

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

You can ask anybody who's ever worked for me or worked with me, who's ever served with me, when I tell you I'm going to try to do something, I will get up every single day and work my heart out for you.

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.