William Butler Yeats

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Works

492

Cited by

3,546

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5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 61,500x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,872x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 38,975x

4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,305x

5. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,722x

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Authority record · VIAF

Nationality

IE, GB, IT

Role / Field

Poets, Poetas, Poet, Escritores, Dramaturgos, Poetry

Language

eng, gle

Gender

Male

Recorded by 49 libraries

Quotes

• “The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
• “This melancholy London. I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”
• “I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all — the colleges I mean — like an opera.”
• “I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal, — that is they have ceased to be self-centered, have given up their individuality.... The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”
• “Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words.”
• “You are still wrecked among heathen dreams.”

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