Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere is another world, but it is in this one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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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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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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 visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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