Top Ten W.B. Yeats Quotes
The Top Ten
1 But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
This one is good!
2 Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire.
3 And say my glory was I had such friends.
4 The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
5 Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
6 Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
7 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!
8 There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
9 Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
10 Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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