Tag: W. B. Yeats

“He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.”

– W. B. Yeats

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

– W.B. Yeats

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

– W.B. Yeats

“And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die”

– W. B. Yeats

“And her red lips sang them a love-song
Till stars grew out of the air.”

-W. B. 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.”

“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you…”

– W. B. Yeats

“There are three incompatible things which man is always seeking — infinite feeling, infinite battle, infinite repose…”

– W. B. Yeats

“And her red lips sang them a love-song
Till stars grew out of the air.”

– W. B. Yeats