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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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Locke sank into a swoon The Garden died God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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