Mentions (9)
"Even the neoliberal ghouls who run our economy recognise that the likes of Joyce and Yeats and Beckett and Oscar Wilde and Seamus Heaney are central to our 'national brand' and it makes good business sense to set aside a bit of money and ensure Irish writing doesn't lose its association with quality"
"I'm asking this having just listened to a beautiful cover of Dreams by The Cranberries by 40 Irish female artists and reading some Yeats. Seriously, for a place with a population of about 6 million, they've produced a huge amount of bands, poets, writers, artists, and musicians."
"I go to meetup groups and shit and find I have literally almost nothing in common with anyone there. Nobody has done anything cool for years and has never heard of Emerson or Yeats or whatever."
"Like, Yeats obviously isn't glorifying rape? There is so many layers to that poem but I guess the argument is that even him trying to use rape as metaphor is already exploitative of women."
"How can I, that girl standing there, / My attention fix / On Roman or on Russian / Or on Spanish politics? / Yet here's a travelled man that knows / What he talks about, / And there's a politician / That has both read and thought, / And maybe what they say is true / Of war and war's alarms, / But O "
"I love Yeats 'Leda and the Swan', its probably one of my favourite poems ever"
"Like, Yeats obviously isn't glorifying rape? There is so many layers to that poem"
"How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?"