Famous Quotes | A strange thing surely that my...

A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.
- William Butler Yeats
Attribution: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. “Owen Aherne and His Dancers.”

Categories: Heart, Love, Playwright

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