“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Permalink: W. B. Yeats
About this quote
The speaker of Yeats's 1899 poem has no embroidered heavens to lay beneath his beloved, only the things he imagines. Weddings borrow the line because it turns the wedding day into a request for careful handling of what a person carries inside.
Source: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven