These men - Yeats, James Stephens, and the rest - had aristocratic minds. For them, the world was not fragmented. An idea did not suddenly grow ... all alone and separate. (P. L. Travers)

These men - Yeats, James Stephens, and the rest - had aristocratic minds. For them, the world was not fragmented. An idea did not suddenly grow ... all alone and separate.

P. L. Travers

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