Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
William StaffordWisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.
Those times you caught them out and showed them up -- they learned how stupid they are. But now you'll never hear the little song of their purring throats, and you'll never know what they think, when you say hello.
William StaffordTags: pacifism
Ask Me
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.
Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?
William StaffordChildren of heroes have glory for breakfast.
William StaffordA speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
William StaffordIf it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.
William StaffordTags: pacifism
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
William StaffordProtest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?
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