Quotations About / On: HEART

  • 41.
    My heart is like a singing bird
    Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
    My heart is like an apple-tree
    Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
    My heart is like a rainbow shell
    That paddles in a halcyon sea;
    (Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. A Birthday (l. 1-6). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University É Press.)
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  • 42.
    O heart, small urn
    of porphyry, agate or cornelian,
    how imperceptibly the grain fell
    between a heart-beat of pleasure
    and a heart-beat of pain.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Walls Do Not Fall.")
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  • 43.
    I saw a staring virgin stand
    Where holy Dionysus died,
    And tear the heart out of his side,
    And lay the heart upon her hand
    And bear that beating heart away;
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. The Resurrection: Songs from a Play (l. 1-5). . . The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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  • 44.
    Give me that man
    That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
    In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
    As I do thee.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 2, l. 71-4. Praising Horatio.)
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  • 45.
    Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
    Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
    Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
    Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Into the Twilight.")
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  • 46.
    I carry from my mother's womb
    A fanatic's heart.
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. Remorse for Intemperate Speech.)
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  • 47.
    And that laugh that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.
    (Dorothy Fields (1904-1974), U.S. songwriter. "The Way You Look Tonight," Swing Time, Chappell & Co. (1936). Music composed by Jerome Kern (1885-1945).)
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  • 48.
    Swift beating on his breast in sibylline frenzy blind
    Because the heart in his blood-sodden breast had dragged him down into mankind ...
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Blood and the Moon.")
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  • 49.
    I know I am but summer to your heart,
    And not the full four seasons of the year.
    (Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. I Know I Am But Summer to Your Heart, The Harp-weaver and Other Poems (1923).)
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  • 50.
    'Way down upon de Swanee ribber,
    Far, far away,
    Dere's where my heart is turning ebber,
    Dere's where de old folks stay.
    (Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1884), U.S. songwriter. The Old Folks at Home (l. 1-4). . . Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.)
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