Yeats Quotes

34 Yeats quotes by 30 unique authors

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility… — Haruki Murakami
There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not… — John F. Kennedy
To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every… — Lady Gregory
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. — Seamus Heaney
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. — Seamus Heaney
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. — Leonard Cohen
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. (William Butler Yeats described his… — William Butler Yeats
Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose because Wilde is on mine. — The Smiths
William Butler Yeats Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into… — William Butler Yeats

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