Best William Butler Yeats Wisdom
- Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade... Floats
- Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. Abandoned
- I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again... Battle
- rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination. Imagination
- Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk Inspirational
- A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught...… All
- Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could… Add
- Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. Begins
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Appreciation
- But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Dream
- Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. Growing
- Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. Encouragement
- Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. Abide
- Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a… Angel
- All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. All
- Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and… All
- Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. Attempt
- There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. Best Friend
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. All
- In dreams begins responsibility. Begins
- Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than… Away O
- People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. Best
- Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? Broken Heart
- The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. Beautiful
- I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' All
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