Yeats famous quotes
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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 -
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
-- Howard Nemerov -
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
-- John Berryman -
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 -
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.
-- Hal Duncan