"A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love."
— Love

January 1, 1970

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William Butler Yeats, The Pity Of Love in The Rose (1893); in recent years a statement which might have originated as a misquotation of the first lines of this has been attributed to Oscar Wilde: "To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love." — no occurrence prior to 1999 has yet been located.