Life Quote by Leonard Cohen

“The poet William Butler Yeats said, “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”

— Dawson Church

Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty,…

— Randall Jarrell

William Butler Yeats Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither…

— William Butler Yeats

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able…

— T. S. Eliot

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

— John Keats

“Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

— Orlando Bloom

“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in…

— Charlotte Mason

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

— T. S. Eliot

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But…

— Ro James