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William Butler Yeats Quotations

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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?
William Butler Yeats - The Celtic Twilight
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
An intellectual hate is the worst.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
William Butler Yeats - Autobiography
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Irish dramatist & poet
1865 - 1939

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