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
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. W. B. Yeats
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! W. B. Yeats
Come let us mock at the great that had such burdens on the mind and toiled so hard and late to leave some monument behind, nor thought of the leveling wind. W. B. Yeats
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. W. B. Yeats
Earth in beauty dressed awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie. W. B. Yeats
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. W. B. Yeats
Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge. W. B. Yeats
Every one is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt is a visionary without scratching. W. B. Yeats
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet. W. B. Yeats
Irish poet and playwright
June 13th, 1865 - January 28th, 1939
