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William Butler Yeats Quotes

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. - William Butler Yeats (The Letters of W. B. Yeats Quotes)

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Source:Letter ot Elizabeth Pelham (January 4, 1939); in The Letters of W. B. Yeats (ed. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954), Page 922
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  • Name: William Butler Yeats
  • Profession: Poet, Writer, Dramatist
  • Born: June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939
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