Poet Yeats Quotes

#1. In dreams begin responsibilities," as the poet Yeats said,

Andrew Klavan

#2. I cannot now think symbols less
than the greatest of all powers whether they are used consciously by
the master of magic or half unconsciously by their successors, the
poet, the musician, and the artist.

W.B.Yeats

#3. 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.

T. S. Eliot

#4. This type of psychological loneliness is perhaps felt most acutely when we are as close to another person's body as is humanly possible. As the poet William Butler Yeats wrote rather dramatically, The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

Jesse Bering

#5. Some moralist or mythological poet
Compares the solitary soul to a swan;
I am satisfied with that,
Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it,
Before that brief gleam of its life be gone ...

William Butler Yeats

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

Seamus Heaney

#7. He [Pigpen] appears too damn happy and that causes a wave of uneasiness.

Katie McGarry

#8. Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Colson Whitehead

#9. Even the wisest man grows tense
With some sort of violence
Before he can accomplish fate,
Know his work or choose his mate.
Poet and sculptor, do the work,
Nor let the modish painter shirk

William Butler Yeats

#10. FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.

Willy Russell

#11. I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Chinua Achebe

#12. How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from his
creation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.

Indu Muralidharan

#13. Even when the poet seems most himself ... he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

William Butler Yeats

#14. If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

William Butler Yeats

#15. 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.

Anne Stevenson

#16. Paige needs someone who has a spotlight," Cass starts. I feel Houston shift, and I keep my eyes at my drink. I should argue with her, be offended or defend myself. But the old me, the girl I was before, wouldn't. She'd agree. "Paige

Ginger Scott

#17. Molech swung and kicked and slaughtered Mexican food with every mighty blow, while a quarter billion extremely confused Blink users watched. And

David Wong

#18. Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

Richard Dawkins

#19. I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Diane Wakoski

#20. The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

William Butler Yeats

#21. The poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

William Butler Yeats

#22. Laughter, I noticed a footman in old-fashioned knee breeches perched near the top of a

Sara Gruen

#23. I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats