“Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“In courtesy I’d have her chiefly learned;
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
By those that are not entirely beautiful”
St. 5 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/ <br class="br">Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats <br class="br">Context: In courtesy I’d have her chiefly learned;<br>Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned<br>By those that are not entirely beautiful;<br>Yet many, that have played the fool<br>For beauty’s very self, has charm made wise.<br>And many a poor man that has roved,<br>Loved and thought himself beloved,<br>From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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