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
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)” — William Butler Yeats 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
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
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
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
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
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
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats) — Bill Shankly 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
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 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
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
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
