| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30424 |
| QUOTATION: | Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to lay a train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry James (1843–1916), U.S. author. Letter, August 25, 1915, to poet W.B. Yeats, from private collection.
This passage was later incorporated into Yeats’s poem, “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | James Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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