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
Everything in nature is resurrection. W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Everything that man esteems endures a moment or a day. Love’s pleasure drives his love away, the painter’s brush consumes his dreams. W. B. Yeats
Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. W. B. Yeats
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content. W. B. Yeats
Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high. W. B. Yeats
God guard me from those thoughts men think in the mind alone. W. B. Yeats
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, and gives a little round of deeds and days. W. B. Yeats
Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned. W. B. Yeats
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. W. B. Yeats
How can we know the dancer from the dance? W. B. Yeats
Irish poet and playwright
June 13th, 1865 - January 28th, 1939