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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.

They tell how it was, and how time
came along, and how it happened
again and again. They tell
the slant life takes when it turns
and slashes your face as a friend.

If you have things right in your life
but do not know why,
you are just lucky, and you will not move
in the little ways that encourage good fortune.

They miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
"Who are you really, wanderer?"
and the answer you have to give
no matter how dark and cold
the world around you is:
"Maybe I'm a king."

Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye. You can be too well prepared for poetry. A conscientious interest in it is worse than no interest at all. . . . It's like a very faint star. If you look straight at it you can't see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.

Silence on a hill where the path ended
and then the forest below
moving in one long whisper
as evening touched the leaves.

The saddest are those not right in their lives
who are acting to make things right for others:
they act only from the self --
and that self will never be right:
no luck, no help, no wisdom.

The ocean and I have many pebbles
To find and wash off and roll into shape.

At noon in the desert a panting lizard
waited for history, its elbows tense,
watching the curve of a particular road
as if something might happen.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

Willows never forget how it feels
to be young.
Do you remember where you came from?

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

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.

Det var ikke kun herr Tufvessons tekniske genialitet; folk beundrede hans dristighed, hans nægtelse af at tage ting alvorligt og hans legende latterliggørelse af institutioner. Next time what I'd do is look at
the earth before saying anything. I'd stop
just before going into a house
and be an emperor for a minute
and listen better to the wind
or to the air being still.

When I dream at night, they save a place for me,
no matter how small, somewhere by the fire.

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