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William Butler 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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William Butler Yeats
Profession:
Poet, Writer, Dramatist
Born:
June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939
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