WIST

Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblest
That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
Rather than, screened by safe majority,
Preserve his little life to little end,
And never raise a rebel cry!

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) English novelist and playwright
“Errantry,” st. 1 (1934)

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) English novelist and playwright
(Attributed)