I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. - William Butler Yeats

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

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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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