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William Butler Yeats Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is William Butler Yeats. This quote is about artifice, desire, eternity, my heart, knows, dying, animal, sick, heart,.