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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.
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Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.
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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.
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