Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.
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Shane Claiborne
They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.
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Salena Godden
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates...
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Haniel Long
It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.
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Anonymous
Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By William Stafford
Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.
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.
I heard a bird congratulating itselfall day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was gladall over again, and said so, again.
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.
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.
