The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.William Stafford
Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.
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When I dream at night, they save a place for me,no matter how small, somewhere by the fire.
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You and I can turn and lookat the silent river and wait. We knowthe current is there, hidden and thereare comings and goings from miles awaythat hold the stillness exactly before us.What the river says, that is what I say.
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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