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...What you fear will not go away it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
William Stafford
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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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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.
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Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
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Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.
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It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.
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The earth says have a place, be what that place requires hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.
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And the things you know before you hear them these are you and the reason you are in the world.
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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
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You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about
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Language can do what it can’t say.
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There are so many things admirable people do not understand.
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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
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A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
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My question is when did other people give up the idea of being a poet? You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?
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So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as second it legends itself deep, the way it is.
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
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Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
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One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.
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