"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry."
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Source: 1891 'The Sorrow of Love', stanza 1. Collected in The Rose (1893).
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