Quotes by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet

Lived from: 1865 - 1939

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 13 june 1865 Died: 28 january 1939

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  • But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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  • Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.
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  • Hate is a kind of 'passive suffering', but indignation is a kind of joy.
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  • If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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  • It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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  • A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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  • A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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  • A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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  • All empty souls tend to extreme opinions.
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  • An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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  • And say my glory was I had such friends.
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  • Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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  • Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
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  • Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
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  • Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
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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.
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  • How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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  • I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
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  • I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
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  • I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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