William Butler Yeats Quotes

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats

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• Truth
• War
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• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • War