I THINK it better that in times like these <br />A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth <br />We have no gift to set a statesman right; <br />He has had enough of medding who can please <br />A young girl in the indolence of her youth, <br />Or an old man upon a winter's night.<br /><br />William Butler Yeats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-being-asked-for-a-war-poem/
