--- title: "19 Fire Quotes By William Butler Yeats" description: "19 Fire quotes by William Butler Yeats. Plus more from William Butler Yeats and more Fire sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d39/william-butler-yeats-350_ashes_what-s-memory-but-the-ash-that-chokes-ou_3077180.png" --- > [What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/what-s-memory-but-the-ash-that-chokes-our-fires-that-have-begun-to/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d39/william-butler-yeats-350_ashes_what-s-memory-but-the-ash-that-chokes-ou_3077180.png) > [Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/some-burn-damp-faggots-others-may-consume-the-entire-combustible/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/william-butler-yeats-350_damp_some-burn-damp-faggots-others-may-consum_1015699.png) > [Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/teaching-is-not-filling-up-a-pail-it-is-lighting-a-fire/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a1/william-butler-yeats-350_education_teaching-is-not-filling-up-a-pail-it-is_2110292.png) > [Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/education-is-not-the-filling-of-a-pail-but-the-lighting-of-a-fire/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f53/william-butler-yeats-350_education_education-is-not-the-filling-of-a-pail-b_1678871.png) > [Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/education-is-not-about-filling-a-pail-it-s-about-lighting-a-fire/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c9/william-butler-yeats-350_education_education-is-not-about-filling-a-pail-it_1803893.png) > [... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/what-matter-so-there-is-but-fire-in-you-in-me/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb2/william-butler-yeats-350_emeralds_what-matter-so-there-is-but-fire-in-you_2042606.png) > [I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-went-out-to-the-hazelwood-because-a-fire-was-in-my-head/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/william-butler-yeats-350_chaos_i-went-out-to-the-hazelwood-because-a-fi_1638067.png) > [Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/education-is-not-filling-a-bucket-but-lighting-a-fire/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27b/william-butler-yeats-350_bucket_education-is-not-filling-a-bucket-but-li_1006655.png) > [Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/where-the-world-ends-the-mind-is-made-unchanging-for-it-finds-miracle/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/william-butler-yeats-350_apocalypse_where-the-world-ends-the-mind-is-made-un_2752091.png) > [My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/my-chair-was-nearest-to-the-fire-in-every-company-that-talked-of-love/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/william-butler-yeats-350_business_my-chair-was-nearest-to-the-fire-in-ever_741479.png) > [“When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/when-you-are-old-and-grey-and-full-of-sleep-and-nodding-by-the-fire/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/william-butler-yeats-350_book_when-you-are-old-and-grey-and-full-of-sl_1295569.png) > [Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/great-powers-of-falling-wave-and-wind-and-windy-fire-with-your/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99e/william-butler-yeats-350_care_great-powers-of-falling-wave-and-wind-an_690278.png) > [I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-rise-in-the-dawn-and-i-kneel-and-blow-till-the-seed-of-the-fire/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8a/william-butler-yeats-350_aging_i-rise-in-the-dawn-and-i-kneel-and-blow_2787820.jpg) > [Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/some-burn-damp-faggots-others-may-consume-the-entire-combustible-2/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed8/william-butler-yeats-350_black_some-burn-damp-faggots-others-may-consum_1173290.png) > [To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/to-sit-beside-the-board-and-drink-good-wine-and-watch-the-turf-smoke/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1e/william-butler-yeats-350_boards_to-sit-beside-the-board-and-drink-good-w_1674591.png) > [Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/processions-that-lack-high-stilts-have-nothing-that-catches-the-eye/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/425/william-butler-yeats-350_eye_processions-that-lack-high-stilts-have-n_1276839.png) > [“When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/when-i-had-laid-it-on-the-floor-i-went-to-blow-the-fire-a-flame-but/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02f/william-butler-yeats-350_fire_when-i-had-laid-it-on-the-floor-i-went-t_1121620.jpg) > [Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/why-should-i-blame-her-that-she-filled-my-days-with-misery-or-that/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37f/william-butler-yeats-350_age_why-should-i-blame-her-that-she-filled-m_3171486.jpg) > [The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/the-mask-put-off-that-mask-of-burning-gold-with-emerald-eyes-o-no-my/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/090/william-butler-yeats-350_beats_the-mask-put-off-that-mask-of-burning-go_286461.jpg) ## Other authors on Fire - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 64 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kristin-cashore-57885.jpg) Kristin Cashore 41 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/kristin-cashore/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 39 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/rumi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 35 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/rick-riordan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 35 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/charles-dickens/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-suzanne-collins-88237.jpg) Suzanne Collins 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/suzanne-collins/) - [Lailah Gifty Akita 29 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 27 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pablo-neruda-73079.jpg) Pablo Neruda 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/pablo-neruda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/cassandra-clare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-heather-james-41000.jpg) Heather James 24 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/heather-james/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-bradbury-77494.jpg) Ray Bradbury 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/ray-bradbury/) ## More by William Butler Yeats > [Time can but make her beauty over again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/time-can-but-make-her-beauty-over-again/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-would-have-touched-it-like-a-child-but-knew-my-finger-could-but/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/you-know-what-the-englishman-s-idea-of-compromise-is-he-says-some/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/beloved-let-your-eyes-half-close-and-your-heart-beat-over-my-heart/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/that-toil-of-growing-up-the-ignominy-of-boyhood-the-distress-of/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-see-a-schoolboy-when-i-think-of-him-with-face-and-nose-pressed-to-a/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/only-god-my-dear-could-love-you-for-yourself-alone-and-not-your/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/we-can-only-begin-to-live-when-we-conceive-life-as-tragedy/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-know-that-i-shall-meet-my-fate-somewhere-among-the-clouds-above/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/great-literature-has-always-been-written-in-a-like-spirit-and-is/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/where-the-wave-of-moonlight-glosses-the-dim-gray-sands-with-light-far/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/his-element-is-so-fine-being-sharpened-by-his-death-to-drink-from-the/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/we-poets-would-die-of-loneliness-but-for-women-and-we-choose-our-men/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/love-is-created-and-preserved-by-intellectual-analysis-for-we-love/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/who-dreamed-that-beauty-passes-like-a-dream-for-these-red-lips-with/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/william-butler-yeats/#itemlist", "name": "19 Fire Quotes By William Butler Yeats", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Butler Yeats" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/what-s-memory-but-the-ash-that-chokes-our-fires-that-have-begun-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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