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W B Yeats Quote

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. - W B Yeats

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Famous Irish poet, name pronounced Yates

Born:13th July, 1865
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Died: 28th January, 1939

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