What do you think of when alone at night?Do not the things your mothers spoke about,Before they took the candle from the bedside,Rush up into the mind and master it,Till you believe in them against your will? - William Butler Yeats Quotes
What do you think of when alone at night?Do not the things your mothers spoke about,Before they took the candle from the bedside,Rush up into the mind and master it,Till you believe in them against your will? William Butler Yeats
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William Butler Yeats Quotes

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

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 Irish Poet
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. - William Butler Yeats Quotes

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

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 Beauty
When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must sing,We are blest by everything,Everything we look upon is blest. - William Butler Yeats Quotes

When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must sing,We are blest by everything,Everything we look upon is blest.

William Butler Yeats

 Remorse
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. - William Butler Yeats Quotes

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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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. - William Butler Yeats Quotes

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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 Irish Poet
Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time. - William Butler Yeats Quotes

Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time.

William Butler Yeats

 
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away. - William Butler Yeats Quotes

One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats Quotes

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away - William Butler Yeats Quotes

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away

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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. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ - William Butler Yeats Quotes

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. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ

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