William Butler Yeats — "I have come to feel towards it [The Land of Heart's Desire] as O'Grady feels tow…"

I have come to feel towards it [The Land of Heart's Desire] as O'Grady feels towards it sometimes & even a little as some of my stupidest critics feel. As so often happens with a thing one has been tempted b and is still a little tempted by I am roused by it to a kind of frenzied hatred which is quite out of my control [...].
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Letter to 'AE' (George William Russell)

Date: Undated, likely early 1900s

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