Explore "On being Asked for a War Poem" by W.B. Yeats on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I think it better that in times like these / A poet keep his mouth shut, for in truth / We have no gift to set a statesman right; / He has had enough of meddling who can please / A young girl in the indolence of her youth, / Or an old man upon a winter's night.