We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
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