Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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