"Embroidered Cloth" was based on a Yeats poem.
His acclaimed 2006 novel The Stolen Child, about a changeling, was inspired by the Yeats poem of the same name.
Eddie was still in the throes of being overcome by the Yeats poem, yet he'd never stopped being the constant observer.
Albright was stunned; she was easily as overcome as Eddie had been by the Yeats poem.
Another Yeats poem "Love and Death" appeared on Dream Harder in 1993.
If you're interested, this is Phyllis's eccentric idea of passwords, a passage from a Yeats poem.
I'd like to call it 'Sailing to Byzantium,' after the Yeats poem.
(Later, perhaps due to Morrison's efforts, Yeats poems would be put to rock settings on a whole album).
I would so agree with you that that particular Yeats poem has an extraordinary quality.
Richard Gilmore relates the Yeats poem to the Coens' film.