... On a sandbarsunlight stretches out its limbs, or is ita sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?
William Stafford
Source: Wikipedia
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
dance music dancing kids learn
It's love, they say. You touch<br/>the right one and a whole half of the universe<br/>wakes up, a new half.
love
I embrace emerging experience.<br/>I participate in discovery.<br/>I am a butterfly.<br/>I am not a butterfly collector.<br/>I want the experience of the butterfly.
experience discovery butterfly embrace
You and I can turn and look<br/>at the silent river and wait. We know<br/>the current is there, hidden; and there<br/>are comings and goings from miles away<br/>that hold the stillness exactly before us.<br/>What the river says, that is what I say.
stillness hidden river wait silent
Let the bucket of memory down into the well,<br/>bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one<br/>stirring, no plans. Just being there.
plans memory cool
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.
lost person found
... You were aimed from birth: <br/>you will never be alone. Rain<br/>will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,<br/>long aisles -- you never heard so deep a sound,<br/>moss on rock, and years. You turn your head --<br/>that's what the silence meant: you're not alone. <br/>The whole wide world pours down.
birth silence sound world deep amazon rock head
I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.
poetry life sense kind impulse hidden river
Even the upper end of the river<br/>believes in the ocean.
end ocean
One way to find your place is like<br/>the rain, a million requests<br/>for lodging, one that wins, finds<br/>your cheek: you find your home.
home rain find place
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading
reading trouble meaning author book find books
.. What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
inspirational fear
I heard a bird congratulating itselfall day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was gladall over again, and said so, again.
poetry
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
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