The Gonne Yeats Letters consist of thirty letters from Yeats and three hundred seventy-three letters from Gonne. These letters consisted of many different thing. In one letter in particular, Gonne refers to Yeats poems as them being their children and she refers to herself as being the father. Gonne was the storm that fueled his poetry, and, in the letter, she refereed to Yeats as the mother who is diligently writing all the longing and heartbreak he was feeling from Gonne not reciprocating his love for her. In an unpublished letter from January 1898 she wrote, "If you find seeing me unfits you for the great work you have to do, then have the courage not to see me at all. I have a great affection and friendship for you - it can never be more" (Letters Reveal the Pain). Gonne clearly told Yeats that she will never love him and that they are just friends. In being friends, they can inspire each other to do great things.
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