William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, World, Chaos

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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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• 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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• 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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• All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

  William Butler Yeats

  Soul, Opinion, Empty

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Wise, Teamwork

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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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• Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Dust, Feet

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Time, Enemy

  The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

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• And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Healing, Bones, Filled

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.48, Penguin

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• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Heart, World

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

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• Though leaves are many, the root is one.

  William Butler Yeats

  Roots

  "The Coming of Wisdom with Time" l. 1 (1910)

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• Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Tired, Heart, Hands

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.215

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• Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Fall, Falling Apart

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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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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