"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (1957). “The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats”
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