My friends in Ireland sometimes ask me when I am going to write a really national poem or romance, and by a national poem or romance I understand them to mean a poem or romance founded upon some famous moment of Irish history, and built up out of the thoughts and feelings which move the greater number of patriotic Irishmen. I on the other hand believe that poetry and romance cannot be made by the most conscientious study of famous moments and of the thoughts and feelings of others, but only by looking into that little, infinite, faltering, eternal flame that we call ourselves.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9788892512603 ● File size 0.6 MB ● Publisher W. B. Yeats ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5173524 ● Copy protection Social DRM