Yeats, William Butler
1865-1939     74 years
Irish poet, playwright...

father was a lawyer and well known portrait artist.

won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1923
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In England, one of the great English poets,
Yeats, called a meeting of all great poets to
listen to Rabindranath Tagore's
Gitanjali. While
listening to it, Yeats himself said that at four
points it seemed somebody else had interfered in
the translation. Exactly those four points were the
four words that C.F. Andrews had suggested.
Andrews had suggested.

Rabindranath was simply shocked. He could not
believe it. He said, "These are the four words
suggested by C.F. Andrews."

Yeats said, "You drop those words. They may be
linguistically right, but they have not the poetic
quality. They are like blocking stones – they stop
the current, the flow, the spontaneity. Please put
your original words that you had before C.F.
Andrews suggested these four words to you."

Rabindranath put back his old words, and Yeats
and the other poets said, "They are linguistically
wrong, but they are far superior poetically. You
leave what you had originally written. Don't listen
to anybody..."

                                            --Osho
                The Sword and the Lotus, ch. 15