Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats Irish dramatist & poet (1865 - 1939)


William Butler Yeats -
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats -
- We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

William Butler Yeats - Autobiography
- Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

William Butler Yeats -
- A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats -
- An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

William Butler Yeats - The Celtic Twilight, Introduction
- Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?

William Butler Yeats -
- And say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats -
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.