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1. "A Ritual to Read to Each OtherIf 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.For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,a shrug that lets the fragile sequence breaksending with shouts the horrible errors of childhoodstorming out to play through the broken dyke.And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail,but if one wanders the circus won't find the park,I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact.And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,a remote important region in all who talk:though we could fool each other, we should consider---lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.For it is important that awake people be awake,or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;the signals we give---yes or no, or maybe---should be clear: the darkness around us is deep." ~ William Edgar Stafford
2. "We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size." ~ William Edgar Stafford
3. "If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still." ~ William Edgar Stafford
4. "A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu." ~ William Edgar Stafford
5. "The earth says have a place, be what that placerequires; hear the sound the birds implyand see as deep as ridges go behindeach other." ~ William Edgar Stafford
6. "The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand." ~ William Edgar Stafford
7. "I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog." ~ William Edgar Stafford
8. "Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?" ~ William Edgar Stafford
9. "Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting anything they don't agree with -- what advantage do they see in democracy?" ~ William Edgar Stafford
10. "Those times you caught them out and showed them up -- they learned how stupid they are. But now you'll never hear the little song of their purring throats, and you'll never know what they think, when you say hello." ~ William Edgar Stafford
11. "Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?" ~ William Edgar Stafford
12. "Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are." ~ William Edgar Stafford
13. "Children of heroes have glory for breakfast." ~ William Edgar Stafford
14. "Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?" ~ William Edgar Stafford
15. "An Afternoon in the StacksClosing the book, I find I have left my headinside. It is dark in here, but the chapters opentheir beautiful spaces and give a rustling sound,words adjusting themselves to their meaning.Long passages open at successive pages. An echo,continuous from the title onward, humsbehind me. From in here the world looms,a jungle redeemed by these linked sentencescarved out when an author traveled and a readerkept the way open. When this book endsI will pull it inside-out like a sockand throw it back in the library. But the rumorof it will haunt all that follows in my life.A candleflame in Tibet leans when I move." ~ William Edgar Stafford
16. "Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why." ~ William Edgar Stafford
17. "Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourthof July, I'll bow and remember you. Whoshall we follow next? Who shall we killnext time?" ~ William Edgar Stafford
18. "A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them." ~ William Edgar Stafford
19. "Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music" ~ William Edgar Stafford
20. "There may be losses too great to understandThat rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand." ~ William Edgar Stafford
21. "Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river." ~ William Edgar Stafford
22. "This dream the world is having about itselfincludes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,a groove in the grass my father showed us allone day while meadowlarks were trying to tellsomething better about to happen." ~ William Edgar Stafford
23. "So, the world happens twice--once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is." ~ William Edgar Stafford
24. "Between roars the lion purrs." ~ William Edgar Stafford

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