Quotes Tagged With :yeats

...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under....

Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable....

An Irish Airman foresees his DeathI Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; ....

What can be explained is not poetry.

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

He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts....

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

For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of....

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?O body swayed to music,....