Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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