Author: William Butler Yeats

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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

- William Butler Yeats

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

- William Butler Yeats

In dreams begins responsibility.

In dreams begins responsibility.

- William Butler Yeats

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

- William Butler Yeats

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

- William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

- William Butler Yeats

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

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

- William Butler Yeats

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

- William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

- William Butler Yeats

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