What did William Butler Yeats mean by: Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland Copy
+ Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Butler Yeats, Beauty, Hierarchy, Power, 0 William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
+ What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Butler Yeats, Destruction, Fear, Misunderstanding, 0 William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
+ Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Butler Yeats, Vulnerability, Wisdom, Writing, 0 William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
+ One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Butler Yeats, Anger, Consequences, Control, 0 William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
+ I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’ Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Butler Yeats, Beauty, Impermanence, Wisdom, 0 William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
+ How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men’s hearts that we call progress ? Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Butler Yeats, Creativity, Nostalgia, Resistance, 0 William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
+ What do we know but that we face one another in this place? Author, June 14, 2023January 2, 2025, William Butler Yeats, Connection, Existence, Uncertainty, 0 William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
+ By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. Author, July 10, 2023January 2, 2025, William Butler Yeats, Imagination, Life, Logic, 0 William Butler Yeats Poet · Ireland
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
