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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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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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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
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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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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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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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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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An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
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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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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
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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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Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
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The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.
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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 is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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