We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.William Butler Yeats
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats
If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.
William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
William Butler Yeats
That is no country for old men.
William Butler Yeats
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