“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“We can only begin to live when we conceive life as
Tragedy.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
― William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)