William Butler YeatsA collection of 35 posts

Courage

I heard the old old men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away like ...

Hope

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hopin...

Happiness

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply grow...

Great

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of h...

Great

Out of Ireland have we come great hatred little room maimed us at the start. ...

God

The years like great black oxen tread the world and God the herdsman goads the...

God

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people ...

Friendship

Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had su...

Education

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

Dreams

Take if you must this little bag of dreams Unloose the cord and they will wr...