21 quotes
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
on Love
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
on Curiosity
"We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body."
on Philosophy
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
on Life
"The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul."
"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
on Creativity
"In dreams begin responsibilities"
"In dreams begin responsibilities."
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dr"
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."
"What can be explained is not poetry."
on Art
"Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
on Grief
"I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find"
on Knowledge
"It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield"
on Courage
"It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is"
on Self Awareness
"I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught."
on Writing
"I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me."
on Time
"To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart"
on Emotion
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters."
