W.B.Yeats Quotes
My Anthology Continues To Sell & The Critics Get More & More Angry. When I Excluded Wilfred Owen, Whom I Consider Unworthy Of The Poets' Corner Of A Country Newspaper, I Did Not Know I Was Excluding A Revered Sandwich-board Man Of The Revolution & That Some Body Has Put His Worst & Most Famous Poem In A Glass-case In The British Museum
However If I Had Known It I Would Have Excluded Him Just The Same. He Is All Blood, Dirt & Sucked Sugar Stick (look At The Selection In Faber's Anthology
He Calls Poets 'bards,' A Girl A 'maid,' & Talks About 'Titanic Wars'). There Is Every Excuse For Him But None For Those Who Like Him ... (from A Letter Of December 26, 1936, In Letters On Poetry From W. B. Yeats To Dorothy Wellesley, P. 124).
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