William Butler Yeats - Autobiography

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
William Butler Yeats
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
William Butler Yeats
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats - The Celtic Twilight, Introduction
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?
William Butler Yeats
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

- William Butler Yeats - Autobiography