Word: yeatsian
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Middle section of Dramatis Personae consists of fragments of a later diary, notes on the death of Synge. Some typical Yeatsian epigrams: "My father says, 'A man does not love a woman because he thinks her clever or because he admires her, but because he likes the way she has of scratching her head.' " "Emotion is always justified by time, thought hardly ever." "I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and har lots." "A gentleman...