We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
—William Butler Yeats
Although this is the second time Yeats has appeared in This Beautiful Sentence, it is the fourth quote from him; St. Patrick’s Day 2025 got a three-leaf clover of Yeats’s beauty. My favorite Irish poet is back for yet another St. Patrick’s Day.
Last week: Edward Lear gets runcible.
Next week: Natalie Haynes licks the bear.
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