Meandering about . . .

Today is the birthday of William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939), poet and dramatist. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 and is oft referred to as one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century.

William Butler Yeats founded the Irish Academy of Letters in 1932.

"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. " - William Butler Yeats

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - William Butler Yeats

"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met." - William Butler Yeats

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats

"The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write." - William Butler Yeats

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" - William Butler Yeats

Trivia bit: In 1886 William Butler Yeats formed the Dublin Lodge of the Hermetic Society and took the magical name Daemon est Deus Inversus.

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