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“Willows never forget how it feelsto be young.Do you remember where you came from?”
William Stafford
“Next time what I'd do is look atthe earth before saying anything. I'd stopjust before going into a houseand be an emperor for a minuteand listen better to the windor to the air being still.”
“My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready."”
“The world speaks everything to us.It is our only friend.”
“I'll be me, but I don't like it.”
“You happy beings, watch every face for thoseyou pass caught in the midst of lifeby some horror, their souls gone dim, cursedor unlucky, exiled under a stone.”
“And all the time it's your own story, even when you think -- "It's all just made up, a trick. What is the author trying to do?" Reader, we are in such a story: all of this is trying to arrange a kind of prayer for you. Pray for me.”
“And sometimes when they look in the firethey see time going on and someone alone,but they don't say anything.”
“All right. I listen. My life sinks a littlefarther, for the pity; from now on I know itwith them. We'll take a stand, wherever the end is.We go forward by this quiet sharing,they one way, I another. I am their promise:no one else is going to know.”
“It is time for all the heroes to go homeif they have any, time for all of us common onesto locate ourselves by the real thingswe live by.”
