"Teaching is not filling up a pail,..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.”

“Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.”

“Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.”

“Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.”

“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”

“I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.”

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”

“My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.”