Life Quote by Patrick Kavanagh

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

“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both…

— Kathleen Raine

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

— Dawson Church

“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and,…

— Joan Lingard

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

— Allen Ginsberg

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

— Albert Camus

“The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius have found so hard to bear was in her case…

— Virginia Woolf

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

— Van Wyck Brooks

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a…

— Laurence Sterne

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us…

— John F. Kennedy