William Butler Yeats — a remark

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“Music is the most impersonal of things and words the most personal, and that is why musicians do not like words.”

Wryly contrasting the abstract character of music with the personal nature of language · Essay, The Musician and the Orator

About William Butler Yeats

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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