“The poet William Butler Yeats said, “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.” — Dawson Church Copy Share Image
“posit by W. B. Yeats: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tony Wilson once compared me to WB Yeats. It didn't really mean that much because I didn't have a clue who Yeats… — Shaun Ryder Copy Share Image
“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before —William Butler Yeats” — Susan Kiernan-Lewis Copy Share Image
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Like Jonathan Swift, Yeats was always a great renamer of his women, giving them mythical aliases or the names of Sir Walter… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“who are incapable of understanding a woman’s character, heart, and soul. Yeats insists that men need “protection & care in those deeper… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward,… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“What a bore! Especially when the day had gone so well. She had no desire to read or listen to records. His… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
“Our national poet WB Yeats said that every Irish writer had a decision to take: whether to express Ireland or exploit it.… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“Many years before, she had read, and recognized as true, the words of W. B. Yeats: 'A Pity beyond all telling is… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity,’” Alonzo said wistfully. “Now college students won’t know Yeats… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the… — W. B. Yeats Copy Share Image
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
![“who are incapable of understanding a woman’s character, heart, and soul. Yeats insists that men need “protection & care in those deeper things where [a woman is strong].” quote by Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ff0/olivia-shakespear-45051_heart-and-soul_who-are-incapable-of-understanding-a-wom_1245173.jpg)
![“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line…” quote by Adam Kirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3dc/adam-kirsch-38562_andrew_in-the-1970s-for-example-i-found-myself_1542775.jpg)
![“[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into…” quote by Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7fc/allen-ginsberg-1110_butlers_william-butler-yeats-has-the-phrase-hodo_940797.jpg)
![“...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four o'clock on the way to his dinner, said to him, 'If I were you and you were a little girl, I would give you a doll.” quote by William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ccc/william-butler-yeats-350_character_i-was-shocked-and-astonished-when-a-dari_779887.jpg)
![“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.” quote by Kathleen Raine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dec/kathleen-raine-24416_poem_for-w-b-yeats-magic-was-not-so-much-a-ki_1799401.jpg)
