Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats View this quote
Also know as William Butler Yeats
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Much did I rage when young, being by the world oppressed, but now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. W. B. Yeats
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. W. B. Yeats
No art can conquer the people alone – the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. W. B. Yeats
No marble, no conventional phrase; On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! W. B. Yeats
No woman loves me, no man seeks my help, Because I be not of the things I dream. W. B. Yeats
Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness. W. B. Yeats
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch. W. B. Yeats
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. W. B. Yeats
One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one’s dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps. W. B. Yeats
Irish poet and playwright
June 13th, 1865 - January 28th, 1939
