I hate Yeats! A lot of his poems are not very good, but some are obviously okay. But how has he become this sort of emblem of literary Irishness when he was this horrible man? He was a huge fan of Mussolini. He was really into fascism. He believed deeply in the idea of a 'noble class' who are superior by birth to the plebs.

Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator.

A lot of people ask me, did debating help me as a writer, and I honestly don't know.

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