The saddest are those not right in their liveswho are acting to make things right for othersthey act only from the self --and that self will never be rightno luck, no help, no wisdom.
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Shelter in winter that day --a storm coming, but in the leeof an island in a cover with friends --oh, little bright cup of sun.William Stafford
Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye. You can be too well prepared for poetry. A conscientious interest in it is worse than no interest at all. . . . It's like a very faint star. If you look straight at it you can't see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.
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We are led one thing at a time to that pure gain -- all that we lose.
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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Exactly at midnight yesterday sighs away.
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A great snug wall goes around everything,has always been there, will alwaysremain. It is a good world to belost in. It comforts you. It isall right. And you sleep.
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