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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. - 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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