"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
― William Butler Yeats
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From William Butler Yeats
- "You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
- "Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."
- "I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age."
More In Poetry
- "Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy."― Katarina Witt
- "The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."― A. R. Ammons
- "You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."― Joseph Joubert