William Butler Yeats Quotes About Inspirational

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  • Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

  • There is only one romance the Soul's.

  • There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

  • My wretched dragon is perplexed.

    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions
  • Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

    William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin
  • The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

    Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 3
  • Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

  • Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

  • Love comes in at the eye.

    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions
  • In dreams begins responsibility.

    Responsibilities epigraph (1914). Said to be from an "Old Play."
  • Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

    "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.
  • Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

  • How can we know the dancer from the dance?

    "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)
  • The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

    William Butler Yeats (1990). “W. B. Yeats: A Vision and Related Writings”, Random House (UK)
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