"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."
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Source: Last Poems (1939) The Circus Animals' Desertion pt. 3
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