WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
13 Jun 1865 - 28 Jan 1939
Irish poet and dramatist.
Yeats is unusual in that his best works were produced after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. According to the Nobel Prize website:
"Whereas [Yeats] received the Prize chiefly for his dramatic works, his significance today rests on his lyric achievement. His poetry, especially the volumes The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), The Tower (1928), The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), and Last Poems and Plays (1940), made him one of the outstanding and most influential twentieth century poets writing in English."
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QUOTES
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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"The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark."
[Life]
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