“Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”
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