William Butler Yeats Quotes

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

  William Butler Yeats

  Imagination, Logic, Progressive

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• There is another world, but it is in this one.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, World, Chaos

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• There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

  William Butler Yeats

  Soul, Opinion, Empty

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• The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

  William Butler Yeats

  Joy, Tragedy, Periods

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• What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Doe

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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passionate, Doubt And Certainty, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

  William Butler Yeats

  Emotional, Tree, Branches

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• The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Reality, Unseen

  Rebecca Pauline Christine Brugsma, William Butler Yeats (1933). “The Beginnings of the Irish Revival ...”

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Farewell, Weight, Weary

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Hour Glass”, p.17, Yokai Publishing

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• Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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!

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Teamwork

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• A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
  A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
  So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Drinking, Home

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• What can be explained is not poetry.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Poetry

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• Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Disappointment, Long

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• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Philosophy, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

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• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Numbers, Progress

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• It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

  William Butler Yeats

  Enemy, Emotion, Trouble

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Wisdom, Suffering

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• Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life Changing, Book, Writing

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Taste, Reason, Feels

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