Yeats Quotes

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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right… — Chinua Achebe
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his… — Leonard Cohen
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium. — Edward Abbey
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet,… — Anne Stevenson
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has… — Robert Bly
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats'… — Brad Blanton
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H.… — J. Courtney Sullivan
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats. — John Berryman
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is… — Reynolds Price
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even… — Diane Wakoski
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and… — Michael Cunningham
I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation… — Linda Hamilton
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt,… — George Steiner
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called… — Lucian Freud
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and… — Roger Ebert
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov
I always thought old age would be a writerâ€™s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… — Samuel Beckett
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad… — Richard Dawkins

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