Sentence examples for reciting Yeats from inspiring English sources

— "was sitting on the bed, reciting Yeats.

Galway Kinnell"—a poet and a professor at N.Y.U. was sitting on the bed, reciting Yeats.

Hanna's oldest brother, Dan, is all set to be a priest at this point, but when we join him in 1991 in New York, he has metamorphosed into "Irish Dan": mercurially reciting Yeats to a table of gay men, deftly and cruelly moving through and out of the charged dramas of the Aids epidemic.

Like immigrants of earlier generations -- the Italian stonecutter tuning his radio to opera, the Irish stevedore reciting Yeats in a tavern, the Jewish tailor viewing a Yiddish production of "King Lear" -- Mr. Wootton sees high culture not as the oppressor of the lowly but as an agent of their liberation.

He took to reciting passages — Yeats, Emerson, the Declaration of Independence — and by his sophomore year in high school the stutter was giving way.

"Come over here and listen to my friend recite this Yeats poem".

He recited a Yeats poem, and described his training in karate and jujitsu; he has black belts in both.

My father, an Abbey Theatre actor, recited WB Yeats and shared stories of the writers he knew.

Once you've heard the tremulous, ghostly drone in which Yeats recites it, you think of the poem in a completely new way — as an incantation, an invocation, the casting of a spell of memory and desire — and, at least for me, it remains there as a background hum in any reading of his work.

Are you now secretly pleased that you can recite some Blake or Yeats or a Shakespearean sonnet at the drop of a hat?

"I'm reciting one of our favourite Yeats poems, for my husband, Charles," said Sarah Playforth.