Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSFrom our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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