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“If you don't know the kind of person I am
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.”
― The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.”
― The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems
“Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.”
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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
― Civil Disobedience
― Civil Disobedience
William Stafford's Poetry & Poetics
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Critically reading and discussing the poetry and prose of William Stafford (1914-1993), former Consultant in Poetry to the US Library of Congress (197 ...more
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This group is for those who believe in the cross-cultural necessity and permanence of poetry. Share and discuss your favourite poets and the writing p ...more
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— last activity Feb 19, 2011 12:01PM
The name defines it -- a place to recommend the contemporary poetry books that knock your socks off. Recommendations and discussion of can't-put-down ...more
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This place is for poets only Here we can stand proud and tall We lay what we have for the world to see Here there is no worry at all.
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A group for serious writers of poetry--we will share discussions about poets we like, about the writing of poetry, and (in a restrained way) share som ...more
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