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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

William Butler Yeats
Men, Vision, Literature
William Butler Yeats (2008). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

William Butler Yeats
Expression, Literature, Mood
William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

William Butler Yeats
Pieces, Literature, Becoming
William Butler Yeats (2017). “Ideas of Good and Evil”, p.79, Litres

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