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
They shall be remembered forever, They shall be alive forever, They shall be speaking forever, The people shall hear them forever. W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. W. B. Yeats
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. W. B. Yeats
To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful. W. B. Yeats
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. W. B. Yeats
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. W. B. Yeats
We can only begin to live when we conceive life as tragedy. W. B. Yeats
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. W. B. Yeats
What the world’s million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere. W. B. Yeats
When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars. W. B. Yeats
Irish poet and playwright
June 13th, 1865 - January 28th, 1939