W.B.Yeats Quotes

Literature Is, To My Mind, The Great Teaching Power Of The World, The Ultimate Creator Of All Values, And It Is This, Not Only In The Sacred Books Whose Power Everybody Acknowledges, But By Every Movement Of Imagination In Song Or Story Or Drama That Height Of Intensity And Sincerity Has Made Literature At All. Literature Must Take The Responsibility Of Its Power, And Keep All Its Freedom: It Must Be Like The Spirit And Like The Wind That Blows Where It Listeth; It Must Claim Its Right To Pierce Through Every Crevice Of Human Nature, And To Descrive The Relation Of The Soul And The Heart To The Facts Of Life And Of Law, And To Describe That Relation As It Is, Not As We Would Have It Be ...

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