Quotes of: Yeats Keyword

Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that women must labour to be beautiful, but Reynolds--who used to be a passionate Yeats fan--is now of the opinion that Yeats is entitled to his point of view, but that was then and social attitudes were di...

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

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

John Berryman

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats ...

Linda Hamilton

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

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 his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Leonard Cohen

Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: The Complete Works PergamonMedia

To be standing together in a frosty field, looking up into the sky, marvelling at birds and revelling in the natural world around us, was a simple miracle. And I wondered why we were so rarely able to appreciate it.

Birding with Yeats: A Memoir

Birds are everywhere in our literature, a part, it seems, of our collective poetic imagination. If writing a beautiful line of poetry fills a poet's heart with joy, imagine how that same poet's soul must take flight at the sight of swallows soaring t...

Birding with Yeats: A Memoir

Paraphrasing Yeats: It was as the Irish poet had written, a waste of breath, the years that had gone past, the years to come. There was only the present moment to live and die in. [ref. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ...The years to come seemed w...

The Garden of Evening Mists

Frankie Dunn: What's she sayin'? Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Wants to know what you're readin'. Frankie Dunn: It's Yeats. [turns to Maggie] Frankie Dunn: Keep your head back. Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Why don't you talk a little Yeats to her? Show her wh...

Million Dollar Baby

A turning point in the criticism of Hardy’s poetry came in his centenary year, in which W. H. Auden (1940) recorded his indebtedness to Hardy for his own education in matters of poetic technique. .......................... In a radio interview, Lar...

Thomas Hardy

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

Seamus Heaney

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

Leonard Cohen

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

Howard Nemerov

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

James McGreevey

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Shane Leslie

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

Seamus Heaney

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Darrell Royal

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

Saint Patrick

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Yeats Is Dead!: A Mystery by 15 Irish Writers