William Butler Yeats Eyes Quotations

Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes.

Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made.

I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.