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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
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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.
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Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
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William Stafford
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Born:
January 17, 1914
Died:
August 28, 1993
(aged 79)
Bio:
William Edgar Stafford was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He was appointed the twentieth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970.
Known for:
Traveling Through the Dark (1962)
The Way It Is
Writing the Australian crawl (1964)
You must revise your life (1986)
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