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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. Hound voices were they all.
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I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?
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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
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