Inspiring Quotes by William Butler Yeats - Page 2

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

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

"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste"

"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera"

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends"

"Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away"

"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love"

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught"