William Butler Yeats — a remark

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“The more I tried to make my art deliberately beautiful, the more did I follow the opposite of myself.”

Recognising the danger of pursuing beauty at the expense of authentic self-expression · Essay, The Tree of Life

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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