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A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
William Stafford
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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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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 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.
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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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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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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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You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.
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There are so many things admirable people do not understand.
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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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Language can do what it can’t say.
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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
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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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Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.
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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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Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.
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When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
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I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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