Yeats Quotes
34 Yeats quotes by 30 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
— Seamus Heaney
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The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
— Seamus Heaney
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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.
— Leonard Cohen
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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
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Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose because Wilde is on mine.
— The Smiths
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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
Who Wrote These Yeats Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 34 Yeats Quotes, led by these top contributors: