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“The imaginative writer differs from the saint in that he identifies himself—to the neglect of his own soul, alas!—with the soul of the world.”

Contrasting the artist's immersion in worldly experience with the saint's pursuit of transcendence · Essay, The Two Kinds of Asceticism

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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