W.b. Yeats

Quotes

• “Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where...”
• “I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard ...”
• “People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
• “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
• “I have spread my dreams under your feet.Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
• “Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.”
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
• “To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart”
• “What can be explained is not poetry.”