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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.
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