Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca."
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Yeats
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Anne Stevenson
Poet, Writer
"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."
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