William Butler Yeats
  • Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

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

  • Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  • You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

  • The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.