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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
William Stafford
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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.
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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
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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.
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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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A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
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The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.
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It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
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