In dreams begins responsibility.
W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats: Irish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature 1923, 1865 to 1939.
W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats · The closing couplet of "Never Give All the Heart," a poem that warns against giving all the heart and then admits the poet did exactly that.
W. B. Yeats · From "When You Are Old," written at 27 for Maud Gonne, asking her to picture herself old and remember the one man who loved more than her beauty.
W. B. Yeats · The last lines of "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven," written for Maud Gonne, who turned him down; he is poor, so he offers dreams instead of the cloths of heaven.
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