Certain Quote by Robert Wilson Lynd

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was…

— Leonard Cohen

Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.

— David Benioff

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

— Dawson Church

“There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of…

— Richard Dawkins

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

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

— Howard Nemerov

“New worlds are important, but you can’t just describe them. Give us the stories that make up that universe. No matter how wild and…

— Brené Brown

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young…

— Anne Stevenson

All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the boards, firing…

— Marvin Mudrick

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who…

— Thomas Huxley