Fairy Quote by Hozier

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

— Kate Thompson

“When I was thirteen, I used to get high on Dylan Thomas, Blake, Wilde, and Yeats.”

— Jolie Holland

“Only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen wing-footed wanderer. We could not find…

— Rollo May

“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.”

— Christopher Bram

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.

— Leonard Cohen

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

— Leonard Cohen

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…

— Linda Hamilton

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

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she…

— Patti Smith

“May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught. —W. B. YEATS”

— Tim Johnston

“David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision”

— James Hollis

“I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance…

— Al Alvarez

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“ . . . after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be…

— W. B. Yeats

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

— John Berryman