“Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?”

—  W.B. Yeats , book The Tower

I, st. 5-6
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
Context: But is there any comfort to be found?
Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?

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