“In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeats's talent for self-dramatization; for these reasons and others he has never become a public figure or a popular writer.”

—  Thomas Sturge Moore

Yvor Winters Uncollected Essays and Reviews (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1973) p. 139.
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