William Butler Yeats

Responsibilities And Other Poems William Butler Yeats

These controversies, political, literary, and artistic, have showed that neither religion nor politics can of itself create minds with enough receptivity to become wise, or just and generous enough to make a nation. Other cities have been as stupid-Samuel Butler laughs at shocked Montreal for hiding the Discobolus in a cellar-but Dublin is the capital of a nation, and an ancient race has nowhere else to look for an education.