We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. Essays - Page 488by William Butler Yeats - 1918 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
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...spirit must be made strong by pulling against the current, not by drifting with it. As he says again: We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. Probably there is more rhetoric than poetry in the world because it is easier and pleasanter to quarrel... | |
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