But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.