“Hammer your thoughts into unity.”

—  W.B. Yeats

"If I Were Four-and-Twenty," printed in Irish Statesman (23 August 1919)
Context: 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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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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