William Butler Yeats - Enough Said!
One of the great poets of the English world, and a great Irish man, Yeats can inspire as very few writers can.
Fellow men and friends, who visit this blog, if you can’t get this, you need to stop and reach for your heart, you have buried it too deep.
- “Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ”
- “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. ”
- “I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”
- “In dreams begins responsibility.”
- “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. ”
- “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
- “All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
- “Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. ”
And about his beloved Ireland, a land I have only seen from afar, but love, he said:
- “You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. ”
