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Yeats Quotes: "I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats."

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.



Yeats Quotes: "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry."

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.




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

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



Yeats Quotes: "What can be explained is not poetry."

What can be explained is not poetry.




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

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



Yeats Quotes: "Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language."

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.



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

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




Yeats Quotes: "Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry."

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.



Yeats Quotes: "The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats."

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.



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."

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.



Yeats Quotes: "With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)"

With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)



Yeats Quotes: "It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise."

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.




Yeats Quotes: "Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil"

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil



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

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



Yeats Quotes: "One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium."

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.



Yeats Quotes: "I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core."

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.



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

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



Yeats Quotes: "Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness."

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.



Yeats Quotes: "I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it."

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.



Yeats Quotes: "I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.""

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."



Yeats Quotes: "O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?



Yeats Quotes: "For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness."

For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.



Yeats Quotes: "Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric"

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric



Yeats Quotes: "Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal"

Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal