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Irish
-
Poet
June 13
, 1865 -
January 28
, 1939
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
William Butler Yeats
Friendship
,
You
,
Friends
,
Strangers
,
Met
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Education
,
Fire
,
Lighting
,
Filling
,
Pail
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
Motivational
,
Hot
,
Wait
,
Strike
,
Iron
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats
Heart
,
Romantic
,
Kiss
,
Stars
,
Far Away
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats
Beautiful
,
Time
,
Innocent
,
Enemy
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
Man
,
Wise
,
People
,
Think
,
Language
,
Like
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 flame!
William Butler Yeats
Ride
,
Dance
,
Me
,
Wind
,
Mountains
,
World
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
Man
,
Think
,
Friends
,
Say
,
Glory
,
Begins
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
Light
,
Alone
,
Shadow
,
Lights
,
Shadows
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats
Dreams
,
You
,
Bag
,
Will
,
Little
,
Take
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats
Men
,
Drunk
,
Worst
,
Sober
,
Some
,
About
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
Best
,
Worst
,
Passionate
,
Conviction
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
William Butler Yeats
Talent
,
Unity
,
Genius
,
Differences
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats
Heart
,
Sacrifice
,
Long
,
Stone
,
May
,
Make
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats
Joy
,
Tragedy
,
Temporary
,
Sense
,
Him
,
He
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler Yeats
Opinions
,
Empty
,
Souls
,
Extreme
,
Tend
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
Dreams
,
You
,
Because
,
Tread
,
Softly
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
Happiness
,
Growth
,
Happy
,
Pleasure
,
Nor
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats
Life
,
Life Is A
,
Long
,
Preparation
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
Dreams
,
You
,
Feet
,
Poor
,
Spread
,
Only
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
William Butler Yeats
Moment
,
Thought
,
Will
,
Us
,
Line
,
Our
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 you can understand.
William Butler Yeats
Child
,
World
,
You
,
Sympathy
,
Understand
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 die.
William Butler Yeats
Love
,
Truth
,
Dating
,
Eye
,
Die
,
Wine
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
William Butler Yeats
Soul
,
Moral
,
Energy
,
New
,
Stronger
,
Than
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats
Poetry
,
Others
,
Out
,
Quarrel
,
Make
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats
History
,
Man
,
Courage
,
Die
,
Battle
,
Why
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