“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.”
— Jack Kerouac, book The Dharma Bums
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