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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… — 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.… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Anne Stevenson
- One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly
- The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton
- 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
- 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,… — 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… — Diane Wakoski