Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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 worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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