Maud wrote to Yeats, “You make beautiful poetry out of what you call your unhappiness, and are happy in that. Marriage would be such a dull affair. Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you.” I suppose she valued art over happiness.
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Ah. Maud.
Maud wrote to Yeats, “You make beautiful poetry out of what you call your unhappiness, and are happy in that. Marriage would be such a dull affair. Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you.” I suppose she valued art over happiness.