My own position is that an idealism or spiritualism which denies magic, and evil spirits even, and sneers at magicians and even mediums (the few honest ones) is an academical imposture.
— William Butler Yeats Modern

Irish poet

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Letter to Lionel Johnson

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1893

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Controversial

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