Almost Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image “Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Almost Oratory
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I hate Yeats! A lot of his poems are not very good, but some are obviously okay. But how has he become this sort… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“posit by W. B. Yeats: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“here is one other element of the apocalyptic tradition to be considered, namely transition. I said a minute ago that one of the assumptions… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem “The Second Coming” says, “Turning and turning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“ . . . after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be… — W. B. Yeats Copy Share Image
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
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I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan,… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been… — John Cena Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of… — Farnaz Fassihi Copy Share Image
While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
