56 Quotations by William Butler Yeats
- 1. A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unsti ...
- 2. A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
- 3. An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing ...
- 4. An intellectual hatred is the worst.
- 5. And say my glory was I had such friends.
- 6. But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly becaus ...
- 7. Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
- 8. Come away,O human child!
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- 9. Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambas ...
- 10. Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
- 11. Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar tho ...
- 12. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered ...
- 13. Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy whe ...
- 14. Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?
- 15. I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mo ...
- 16. I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the ...
- 17. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
- 18. I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering, jeering emptiness. They have all made wh ...
- 19. I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him ...
- 20. I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort tha ...
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