Influence
Yeats was an important influence on Máirtín Ó Direáin.
The title of the album Like a Flame by Frederik Magle is derived from a quote from Yeats' play The Land of Heart's Desire.
In 2011 The Waterboys released An Appointment with Mr Yeats, an album that contains fourteen tracks, all of which are based upon Yeats' poetry, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott.
Yeats' poem When You Are Old And Grey inspired Australian playwright Jessica Bellamy to write a theatrical monologue Little Love, which was subsequently adapted for the short film Bat Eyes by director Damien Power.
His poem "No Second Troy" is quoted in, and is the inspiration for, the song Yeat's Grave by Irish band The Cranberries.
Read more about this topic: W. B. Yeats
Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations, as all other causes combined.”
—John Abbott. The Mother at Home; or the Principles of Maternal Duty, John Abbott, Crocker and Brewster (1833)
“The woman who can’t influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Somewhere along the line of development we discover who we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else’s life not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)