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William Butler Yeats quotes about light

Irish Poet June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed,..."
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of... William Butler Yeats
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths. Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats
Where the wave of moonlight glosses. The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses. We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances. Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap. And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles. And is anxious in its sleep. . . . William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a..."
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast..."
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. William Butler Yeats

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