W.B. Yeats Quotes (11+)

Enjoy the best W.B. Yeats Quotes. Quotations by W.B. Yeats (Irish Poet and Nobel Laureate)
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild...

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

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

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people

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William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. An Irish poet and dramatist, he was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.