The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell: “Grateful acknowledgment is made... for permission to quote from "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats.”
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion: “Book epigraph, quoted in full at the front of the book; candidate context captured the line "The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out"”
A Promised Land by Barack Obama: “Between Republican attacks and Democratic complaints, I was reminded of the Yeats poem "The Second Coming": My supporters lacked all conviction, while my opponents were full of passionate intensity.”