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How much of the best I have done and still do is but the attempt to explain myself to her [Maud Gonne]? If she understood, I should lack a reason for writing, and one never can have too many reasons for doing what is so laborious. (“Journal”, 1909, Mem 142)
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© 1990 Wawick Gould
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Perloff, M. (1990). Between Hatred and Desire: Sexuality and Subterfuge in “A Prayer for my Daughter”. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 7. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07951-3_3
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