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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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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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People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
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All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.
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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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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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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
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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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And the things you know before you hear them these are you and the reason you are in the world.
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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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If you can say it, it begins to exist.
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.
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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
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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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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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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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So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as second it legends itself deep, the way it is.
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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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