Quotation by

William Butler Yeats

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

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Yeats is saying that we experience wine through taste and love through what we see, suggesting that these are simple, direct ways we first understand pleasure and attraction. He implies that this initial perception is the only certain truth we have about love before life ends.

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