"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet."
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Source: Huston Smith (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.196, Univ of California Press
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