Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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