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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -- William Butler Yea
• A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote
  A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throa...
• Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
  -- William Butler Yeats, "The Stolen Child...
• The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
  -- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming...
• The man who understands one woman is qualified to understand pretty well everything.
  -- William Butler Yea...
• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
  -- William Butler Yea...
• All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Dramatis Personae" (Autobiog.
  1936)...
• I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore
  While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core....
• Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
  -- William Butler Yea...