Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me “weak” or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life…If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book [The Works of William Blake, with Edwin Ellis, 1893], nor would The Countess Kathleen [stage play, 1892] have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
Author: W.B. Yeats
![Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me “weak” or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life…If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book [<em>The Works of <a href="http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/forests-of-the-night.php" rel="nofollow noopener">William Blake</a></em>, with Edwin Ellis, 1893], nor would <em>The Countess Kathleen</em> [stage play, 1892] have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. - W.B. Yeats](/static/img/quotes/601090.jpg)