Fire Quotes by William Butler Yeats

19 Fire quotes by William Butler Yeats

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Yeats treats flame as a symbol of both destruction and rebirth. In this set of nineteen quotes, the poet’s mystic eye turns fire into a mirror for the soul, illuminating the hidden currents beneath everyday life.

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

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I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.

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Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

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Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the…

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Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into…

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“When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read,…

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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

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I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I…

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Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot…

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“When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And…

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To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and…

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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we…

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Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant…

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The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find…

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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no…

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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour…

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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I…

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving…

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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women…

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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action,…

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide,…

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