Quotes By William Butler Yeats

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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.

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

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

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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