Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats
Irish
About W. B. Yeats
Irish poet and playwright, born William Butler Yeats, who helped found the Irish Literary Theatre and won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Quotes by W. B. Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, / And nodding by the fire, take down this book
I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.