William Butler Yeats Quotes

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

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Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

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Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

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Hammer your thoughts into unity.

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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

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The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

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Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

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

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Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.

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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

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We are fastened to a dying animal.

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For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

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