An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.