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

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

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

"Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Wise, Teamwork

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Life, Dance

"Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

Love comes in at the eye.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Life, Eye

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

In dreams begins responsibility.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Life, Dream

Responsibilities epigraph (1914). Said to be from an "Old Play."

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Past, Disrespect

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Light, Shadow

Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 3

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Life, Art

William Butler Yeats (1990). “W. B. Yeats: A Vision and Related Writings”, Random House (UK)

There is only one romance the Soul's.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Romance, Soul

My wretched dragon is perplexed.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Life, Dragons

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Daughter, Art

William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin