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influential Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)- Many think Yeats greatest poetry was written when he was in his sixties.
- "He began with William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
- —William Butler Yeats, "Easter, 1916".Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- Sol Weintraub asked, "William Butler Yeats?"Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- In his poetry, William Butler Yeats often contrasts the freedom of birds with the earthbound cares and woes of humans.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- —from THE ROSE OF BATTLE, W. B. Yeats Nothing is easier than self-deceit.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- Why should he think me cruel
Or that he is betrayed?
I'd have him love the thing that was
Before the world was made.
W.B. Yeats, A Woman Young and Old
"Long ago, Frith made the world.Richard Adams -- Watership Down - W.B. YEATS They sleep not, except they have done mischief; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall For they eat the bread of wickedness, And they drink the wine of violence.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- When the poet W.B. Yeats stood on this platform more than seventy years ago, Ireland was emerging from the throes of a traumatic civil war that had followed fast on the heels of a war of independence fought against the British.Seamus Heaney -- Crediting Poetry
- W. H. Auden, in his great elegy "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" (1940), emphasizes the coldness of the day Yeats died.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- "The Rose of Battle," by Mr. William Butler Yeats.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- Nevertheless, until the British government caved in to the strong-arm tactics of the Ulster loyalist workers after the Sunningdale Conference in 1974, a well-disposed mind could still hope to make sense of the circumstances, to balance what was promising with what was destructive and do what W.B. Yeats had tried to do half a century before, namely, "to hold in a single thought reality and justice."Seamus Heaney -- Crediting Poetry
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things Fall Apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
—W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"
CHAPTER ONEChinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart - Nor in this by W. B. Yeats: "The character who delights us may commit murder like Macbeth .... and yet we will rejoice in every happiness that comes to him."Henry L. Mencken -- The American Language
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