Joe Biden
Read by Joe Biden
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
bySeamus Heaney
199096 Pages“History says, don't hope / On this side of the grave. / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up, / And hope and history rhyme.”
— Joe Biden
Source: 2020 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Speech
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Definitive Edition
byW. B. Yeats
1996544 Pages“My colleagues always kid me about quoting Irish poets all the time. They think I do it because I'm Irish. I do it because they're the best poets.”
— Joe Biden
Source: Remarks at the 2022 Kennedy Center Honorees Reception
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