4 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Thinking

William Butler Yeats quotes on thinking

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.

15. Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

81. Opinion is not worth a rush.

148. God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone.