William Butler Yeats Quotes
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Topics
Family, Families
Marriage
Materialism
Parenting, Parental Authority
Family Pressure
Men
Self-Sacrifice
Temptation
Domestic Life
Addiction
Financial Stability
Responsibilities
Domestic Comfort
Economic Strain
Family Responsibilities
Financial Stress
Marital Obligations
Material Security
Social Expectations
Family Comfort
Marriage Burden
Citations
Yeats, William Butler. Autobiographies. Macmillan, 1955, p. 321.
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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.