Quotes by
William Butler Yeats |
1865-1939 , Irish poet, Nobel 1923
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Quotations
| • | Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. 3 |
| • | Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process. 3 |
| • | There is another world, but it is in this one. 2 |
| • | If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. 2 |
| • | All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. 1 |
| • | What can be explained is not poetry. 1 |
| • | What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. |
| • | Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. |
| • | Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking |
| • | There are no strangers here. Only friends you haven't yet met. |
| • | I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. |
| • | The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. |
| • | Everything in nature is resurrection. |
| • | The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. |
| • | Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. |
Quotes in Verse
| • | I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made. |
| • | I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. |
