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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Meaning Poetry Right Word
If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Connection Myself Relatable Tree Yourself
One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

King Life Live Slave Sleep Soul Spiritual
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Dreams Feet Myself Poor
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Art Change Heart Work
Myself I must remake.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Build Improvement Myself Transformation
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Face Myself Search World
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Death Imagination Live Logic Reason
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Eyes Fall Hairs Heart Lonely Love Rest
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Contrary Greatness Mystery Past Power Pretend World
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Eyes Love Myself Romance See Wine Yourself
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Drink Man Sober Worst
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

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