Quotes About Wb Yeats

#1. When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Umberto Eco

#2. 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

#3. Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
The Second Coming

Wb Yeats

#4. The last thing she remembered before finally drifting off was how nice Steffi's hair smelled.

Kim Baldwin

#5. Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in 'In Memory of WB Yeats': "You were silly like us.

Christopher Bram

#6. The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.

Walker Percy

#7. Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. All our lives, we long, we long, thinking it is the moon we long for. So how, when we meet it in the shape of a most fair woman, can we do less than leave all others for her? WB Yeats

Orna Ross

#9. It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Sherwood Anderson