William Butler Yeats Quotes

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

William Butler Yeats

• World
• Pity
• Melancholy
• Weariness
• Exultation

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• While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Pity
  • Melancholy