Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
An intellectual hate is the worst.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
I have spread my dreams under your feet
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

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