Rhetoric may do well enough at the bar and in the pulpit, bu... - William Butler Yeats

This quote is attributed to William Butler Yeats.

"Rhetoric may do well enough at the bar and in the pulpit, but the true business of poetry is not to rhetoricise."

William Butler Yeats Art

Poet Playwright Irish 1865–1939

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