William Butler Yeats Quotes

William Butler Yeats

Irish Poet

Born: Jun 13, 1865

Died: Jan 28, 1939

Best Heart Man Truth World You

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats

Education Fire Lighting Filling

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats

Man Think Say Had Most Glory Friends Begins Ends Where

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats

Friendship You Met Strangers Only Friends Here

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. William Butler Yeats

Beautiful Time Enemy Innocent

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. William Butler Yeats

Genius Differences Unity Talent

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats

Best Conviction Worst Passionate Intensity Lack While Full

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. William Butler Yeats

Men Drunk Worst Worst Thing Some Some Men About Sober Thing

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? William Butler Yeats

Heart Long Sacrifice Too Make Stone May Suffice

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats

Happiness Happy Virtue Pleasure Neither Simply Nor Growing Growth Thing

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats

You World Sympathy Waters Wild More Weeping Come Fairy Understand Hand Hand-In-Hand Than Child Human Full Away

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats

Soul Stronger Before Energy Every Trial Moral Spirit Weathered Temptation New Makes Than Represents Endured Fund Conquering Right

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. William Butler Yeats

Joy Will Triumph Obstacles Overcomes Knows Labours Which

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats

Dreams You Softly Because Tread

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. William Butler Yeats

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats

Alone Light Shadow Shadows Lights Looks Always Motive Deed

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats

Others Ourselves Out Poetry Make Quarrel Rhetoric

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' William Butler Yeats

Beautiful Old Men Beauty Waters Say Like Heard Old Men Away

In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats

Dreams Responsibility Begins

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