William Butler Yeats

Ten cytat ma więcej niż dwa języki

Świat pełen jest magicznych zjawisk, które czekają cierpliwie, aż nasze zmysły się wyostrzą.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

宇宙間神奇萬物俯拾皆是,靜靜在那兒等候我們藉之以增長智慧。

My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not persuade, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

I see my life go drifting like a river From change to change; I have been many things - A green drop in the surge, a gleam of light Upon a sword, a fir tree on a hill, An old slave grinding at a heavy quern, A king sitting upon a chair of gold - And all these things were wonderful and great; But now I have grown nothing, knowing all. Ah! Druid, Druid, how great webs of sorrow Lay hidden in that small slate-coloured thing!

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.