Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose because Wilde is on mine. — The Smiths 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
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
“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
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
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov 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
Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. — Lionel Johnson 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“...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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught. —W. B. YEATS” — Tim Johnston 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
“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
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
“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)” — William Butler Yeats 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/i/ff0/olivia-shakespear-45051_heart-and-soul_who-are-incapable-of-understanding-a-wom_1245173.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/i/ccc/william-butler-yeats-350_character_i-was-shocked-and-astonished-when-a-dari_779887.png)
![“[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/i/7fc/allen-ginsberg-1110_butlers_william-butler-yeats-has-the-phrase-hodo_940797.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/i/3dc/adam-kirsch-38562_andrew_in-the-1970s-for-example-i-found-myself_1542775.png)
![“I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0e/robert-hass-3548_bones_i-am-talking-about-poetry-it-s-like-that_2564519.png)
