Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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