I remember hearing that Yeats once said something like this:
“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
Did he say this? If so, where did he say this?
A Drinking Song
“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.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and sigh.”
— William Butler Yeats
He wrote it. “A Drinking Song” is available here, among other places.
Just a standalone, not part of a long poem or one of his plays.