“It is no longer a passion hidden in my heart:
It is Venus herself fastened to her prey.”
Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée:
C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée.
Phèdre, act I, scene III.
Phèdre (1677)
“Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.”
— W.B. Yeats, book The Tower
St. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Sailing to Byzantium http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1575/
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