What can be explained is not poetry. - William Butler Yeats

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What can be explained is not poetry.

William Butler Yeats

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About William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish symbolist poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He compiled the Oxford Book of Modern Verse.

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Alternative Names: W. B. Yeats • William Yeats • W.B. Yeats • WBY

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I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.

What they undertook to do
They brought to pass;
All things hang like a drop of dew
Upon a blade of grass.