"No art can conquer the people alone-the..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
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“The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.”
“It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.”
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.”