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Quotation from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats (editor)

“Fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved, nor bad enough to be lost,”

W. B. Yeats (editor) (spoken by The Irish peasantry (as reported by Yeats))

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Trooping Fairies, introduction (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text))

Portrait of W. B. Yeats (editor)

The first of several answers Yeats gives to the question of who the fairies are.

Citation: "Fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved, nor bad enough to be lost," — W. B. Yeats (editor), Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Trooping Fairies, introduction (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text)). (id fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry-q2)

Portrait: William Butler Yeats by George Charles Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.

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