Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, w... -William Butler Yeats

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

William Butler Yeats , Poet
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking....
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all....
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet....
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry....

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