“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918): Anima Hominis, part v
“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”
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