Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.
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If you don't know the kind of person I amand I don't know the kind of person you area pattern that others made may prevail in the worldand following the wrong god home we may miss our star.William Stafford
I embrace emerging experience.I participate in discovery.I am a butterfly.I am not a butterfly collector.I want the experience of the butterfly.
William Stafford
Exactly at midnight yesterday sighs away.
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.
William Stafford
So, the world happens twice -- once what we see it as second it legends itself deep, the way it is.
William Stafford
Some time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life. Othershave come in their slow way intomy thought, and some have tried to helpor to hurt ask me what differencetheir strongest love or hate has made.
William Stafford
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