Yeats Quotes

Anne Stevenson

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Book

Frost

Yeats

John Berryman

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

Want

Writing

Yeats

Leonard Cohen

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

Hero

Two

Yeats

Hector Hugh Munro

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats’s poems, but her family denied both stories.

Hammocks

Stories

Yeats

David Nicholls

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

Facts

Wilde

Yeats

Howard Nemerov

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

Literature

Writing

Yeats

Jean-Luc Godard

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

Said

Talking

Yeats

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Yeats Quotes

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

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

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

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats’s poems, but her family denied both stories.

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

When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Anne Stevenson

Leonard Cohen

Hector Hugh Munro

John Berryman

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