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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
William Stafford
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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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And the things you know before you hear them these are you and the reason you are in the world.
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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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