Quotes by William Butler Yeats


Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top

• William Butler Yeats


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

• William Butler Yeats



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