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William Butler Yeats Quotes
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Source:
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (ed. Macmillain, 1918), Page 21
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Name:
William Butler Yeats
Profession:
Poet, Writer, Dramatist
Born:
June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939
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