“All writers, all artists of any kind, in so far as they have had any…” — William Butler Yeats

“All writers, all artists of any kind, in so far as they have had any philosophical or critical power, have had some philosophy, some criticism of their art.”

Arguing that serious artistic creation is accompanied by reflection on its principles · Essay, The Symbolism of Poetry

William Butler Yeats

About William Butler Yeats

13 June 1865–28 January 1939

William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 at Sandymount, County Dublin, and died on 28 January 1939 at Menton, France. During the seventy-three years between those dates, he became not merely Ireland’s most internationally celebrated modern poet but one of the major writers in English. Poet, dramatist, essayist…

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