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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
Truth, War, Thinking
William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
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.