Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose because Wilde is on mine. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
“May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught. —W. B. YEATS” — Tim Johnston Copy Share Image
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats) — Bill Shankly Copy Share Image
I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
William Butler Yeats Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“We had fed the heart on fantasies. / The heart’s grown brutal from the fare.” From “Meditations in Time of Civil War,”… — James Thompson Copy Share Image
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“ . . . after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem… — W. B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“It is always reassuring to discover that great writers are as fallible as oneself. W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Come away! O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Copy Share Image
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I hate Yeats! A lot of his poems are not very good, but some are obviously okay. But how has he become… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
“The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem “The Second Coming” says, “Turning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The Dying Man" in memoriam W.B. Yeats 1. His words I heard a dying man Say to his gathered kin, “My soul’s… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. — Lionel Johnson Copy Share Image
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision” — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —W. B. Yeats” — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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