3 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Discipline

William Butler Yeats quotes on discipline

10. 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.

78. Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.

123. Odour of blood when Christ was slain Made all platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.