#yeats

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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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

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On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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

— W.B. Yeats

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