We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSDo not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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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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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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