Yeats is the writer in whose wake I would like to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Kenzaburo Oe - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The father immediately foresees his son's tragic future in Yeats's The. From Wordnik.com. [Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer] Reference
It is as Modernist as the desolation we find in Yeats's "Byzantium", where. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Moment of Modernity] Reference
The title of the book comes from a line in Yeats 'poem The Song Of Wandering Aengus. From Wordnik.com. [Nov. 19th, 2008 - Issue 0.012] Reference
Yeats is one of the few writers whose greatest works were written after the award of the Nobel Prize. From Wordnik.com. [William Butler Yeats - Biography] Reference
Here again, however, you advised by older teachers that you are making mistake: Yeats is too difficult for children. From Wordnik.com. [Death at an Early Age] Reference
Language, at its best, is not easy, even though the task of the poem, in Yeats's famous phrase, is to make it "seem a moment's thought.". From Wordnik.com. [Language Makes the Senses One] Reference
But in Yeats's considerate attempt to make sure that the reader does not miss the "main point," something of the enigmatic beauty of the. From Wordnik.com. [Tagore and His India] Reference
Yes, that means I’m saying Yeats is not a poet “of the intellect.”. From Wordnik.com. [Panel 2: Aesthetic Lineage and Originality : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Yeats is one of my favorite poets of all time, but his metaphysical theories didn’t ring true. From Wordnik.com. [Angelical Participation? « Unknowing] Reference
Here a ceremony of what must have been genuine personal grief is drowned in what I can only call Yeats-and-water. From Wordnik.com. [THE GREAT AMERICAN PINUP] Reference
To paraphrase Yeats, you can't separate the player from the play -- or at least in this case, you wouldn't want to. From Wordnik.com. [Curiously Strong] Reference
The best lack all conviction, to paraphrase Yeats, and the worst ... and I mean the worst ... are full of intense evil. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I’ve seen hints of it in Yeats and I might say it is a type of understanding that is participatory and not disinterested. From Wordnik.com. [In Which I Wax Mostly Clever « Unknowing] Reference
To paraphrase Yeats, we need to distinguish the dancer from the dance and find a way to stop crowds staying away in their droves. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
I just think "Yeats", particularly never having read THINGS FALL APART. From Wordnik.com. [Nalo Hopkinson On Signals of Prose Problems] Reference
Yeats is incredibly rich, in that regard. From Wordnik.com. [small, busy flames : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
I got a box from Rob with mail, some clothes I’d left, and a new book called Yeats is Dead. From Wordnik.com. [LazyTown on CBS] Reference
Then the darkness dropped again, as old Yeats said. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
It's doing things like that talk I gave on WB Yeats. From Wordnik.com. [Cerys Matthews: 'A 10-year-old could run the country better than politicians'] Reference
How did Yeats put it in To a Child Dancing in the Wind?. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Kelly: Bristol Palin Dances, Pregnant, on Lisa Murkowski's Grave] Reference
By 1915, Yeats was already considered a mythical figure. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry And Politics] Reference
Of such as you were the lines of the poet Yeats written. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
As Yeats wrote, "Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.". From Wordnik.com. [President At Irish Trade And Investment Conference] Reference
See the note in "Comes A Time" regarding Yeats 'poem, "The Empty Cup.". From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Ripple"] Reference
And I set a Yeats poem to music about 25, 35 years ago called �Oh, Curlew. From Wordnik.com. [Carly Simon's 'Never Been Gone'] Reference
As the poet Yeats wrote: "too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.". From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By Vice President On The 50th Anniversary Of Nato] Reference
I met there all that had already charmed me in Malory, Spenser, Morris, and Yeats. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
She's trilingual and well read — her 2007 album reprises poems by Auden and Yeats. From Wordnik.com. [Ecopolitics: Why Japan Risks Its Place In the World to Hunt Whales] Reference
Yeats: "I can't tell the dancer from the dance, so go ahead and shake that thang!". From Wordnik.com. [The Mata Hari of the Faculty Lounge] Reference
I see that you have explained the link between Yeats and "Silver Apples of the Moon.". From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Silver Apples of the Moon"] Reference
The center could hold, Yeats be damned, if she only knew where or what the center was. From Wordnik.com. [In a Strange City]
Yeats once described his art to Ezra Pound as "an accident in one's search for reality.". From Wordnik.com. [Poetry And Politics] Reference
Old King Cole gets a not-so-merry workout in the manners of Tennyson, Yeats and Browning. From Wordnik.com. [The Sincerest Form of Ridicule] Reference
"The best lack all conviction," Yeats wrote, "the worst are full of passionate intensity.". From Wordnik.com. [Ariel Gonzalez: President Marco Rubio] Reference
You know that wonderful line from Yeats: "Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.". From Wordnik.com. [President During Senator Kerry Fundraiser Boston] Reference
So I could wander the streets like a crazy woman muttering poetry by Yeats or Pound or Eliot. From Wordnik.com. [I see other women] Reference
I regarded Yeats as a learned, responsible writer: what he said must be worthy of consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Review from People magazine by R.N. The lyrics are penetrating enough to make you think of Yeats. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream of the Blue Turtles] Reference
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