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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
- When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov
- To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing… — Christopher Hitchens
- 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