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• Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fire, Filling, Lighting A Fire

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• I have heard that hysterical women say
  They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
  Of poets that are always gay

  William Butler Yeats

  Gay, Sick, Poetry

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

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• O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
  The poets labouring all their days
  To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
  Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Broken Heart, Sacrifice, Long

  "Easter 1916" l. 57 (1921)

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• My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

  William Butler Yeats

  Teacher, Father, Book

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
  One time it was a woman's face, or worse--
  The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
  Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
  Than this accustomed toil.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Land, Poetry

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.38, Hayes Barton Press

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• I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Phoenix, Youth

  'His Phoenix'

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• Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

  William Butler Yeats

  Pieces, Literature, Becoming

  William Butler Yeats (2017). “Ideas of Good and Evil”, p.79, Litres

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• What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Hair, Made

  Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset, William Butler Yeats (1971). “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats”

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• For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Loses

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.289, Wordsworth Editions

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• And God would bid His warfare cease,
  Saying all things were well;
  And softly make a rosy peace,
  A peace of Heaven with Hell.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, God, Heaven

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Triumph, World, Way

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• The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Truth, Joy

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

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• I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

  William Butler Yeats

  Kissing, Missing, Arms

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• Education is not filling

  William Butler Yeats

  Filling

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• Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
  For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
  Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
  Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
  And Usna's children died.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

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• If Michael, leader of God's host
  When Heaven and Hell are met,
  Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post
  He would his deeds forget.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Doors, Leader

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.18

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• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Men, Thinking

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Mind, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

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  Dream, Learning, Winter

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.250, Hayes Barton Press

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• And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Kindness, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

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• I know, although when looks meet
  I tremble to the bone,
  The more I leave the door unlatched
  The sooner love is gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sex, Love Is, Doors

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

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• O would, beloved, that you lay
  Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
  While lights were paling one by one.

  William Butler Yeats

  Light, Docks, Beloved

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.59, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fear, Animal, Men

  The Winding Stair (1929) "Death"

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• Though I have many words,
  What woman's satisfied,
  I am no longer faint
  Because at her side?
  O who could have foretold
  That the heart grows old?

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Heart, Sides

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.27, Hayes Barton Press

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