Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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