William Butler Yeats Quotes on Discipline
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One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep: 'Hammer your thoughts into unity.' For days I could think of nothing else, and for years I tested all I did by that sentence.
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Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
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Odour of blood when Christ was slain Made all platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.