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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

William Butler Yeats
Peace, Water, Mind
William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.70, Library of Alexandria

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats
Children, Hands, Water
William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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