William Butler Yeats
Birthdate: June 13, 1865
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Date of Death: January 28, 1939
Occupation: Playwright and Poet
Profile: Awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. Best known for
The Land of Heart's Desire.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats
Number of Quotes: 5
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
O body swayed to music,
O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read ...
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
Last on Earth
