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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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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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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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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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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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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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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
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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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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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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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Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
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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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When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.
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