Yeats lived parts of lives
Ireland's greatest poet spent 30 years chasing a woman who kept rejecting him. She married his rival. He won the Nobel Prize writing about his pain. Then at 52, he married a 25-year-old mystic who changed everything—and realized his obsession had been holding him back. Stockholm, 1923. William Butler Yeats stood before the Swedish Academy receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature—Ireland's first Nobel laureate. The committee praised how his "inspired poetry gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." What they didn't mention: much of that poetry was about a woman who'd been refusing to marry him for 34 years. Maud Gonne was sitting somewhere in Dublin, probably reading about his Nobel Prize in the newspaper, likely thinking "good for William"—and definitely not regretting her decision. 愛爾蘭最偉大的詩人花了三十年時間追求一個始終拒絕他的女人。她嫁給了他的情敵。他以描寫這段痛苦經歷的詩作贏得了諾貝爾文學獎。 52 歲那年，他娶了一位 25 歲的神祕主義者，她的出現改變了一切──他也意識到，自己一直以來的執念其實阻礙了他前進。 1923 年，斯德哥爾摩。 ...