I am well-known for some serious, pop-culture guilty pleasures ("Kendra", Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance", and obviously, anything Katy Perry) so I'm changing it up today. Here's a poem by W.B. Yeats that I love. My book club read it last night and it really touched a nerve! Someone even called it the precursor to "The Rules" (hah). Enjoy...
Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy. Kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.
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