Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire. William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head. William Butler Yeats chaosfire Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away. William Butler Yeats decaymountainfire It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world. William Butler Yeats beautifulloveworld A passion-driven exultant man sings out William Butler Yeats drivenpassionmen Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again. William Butler Yeats lightdreammoving Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love. William Butler Yeats uniqueintellectuallove Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness. William Butler Yeats tranquilitybodyheart BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there. William Butler Yeats growinghearttree THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea William Butler Yeats girlbeautifulfall Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep. William Butler Yeats lovechildrenfall We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive. William Butler Yeats citiesselfmoving It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care. William Butler Yeats fishingsealakes Love comes in at the eye. William Butler Yeats eyeinspirationallife Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil William Butler Yeats shellstoilearthquakes I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know. William Butler Yeats visionimaginationdream Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb. William Butler Yeats laughingmenhands I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. William Butler Yeats collegedreambeautiful Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned. William Butler Yeats broken-heartheartbreaklove Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike. William Butler Yeats collaborationclockwind The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. William Butler Yeats humordrinkingfood
