Sentences with phrase «recite yeats»

«My father would recite Yeats and Heaney from memory.

He recited a Yeats poem in a thick Irish accent, smashed a coffee mug, and then began reading from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a decade - old Internet marketing treatise about the power of communities.

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Many an evening, before and afterward, he would sit in our living room after dinner and respond to the invitation to recite some poetry ¯ especially Yeats ¯ and he would demur, and wisecrack, and then launch out into thirty or forty minutes of long ballads he had committed to memory.