“An intellectual hatred is the worst,
So let her think opinions are accursed.”

— W.B. Yeats, book Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 8 Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/ Source: The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose Context: An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of plenty’s horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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