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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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...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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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
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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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I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
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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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People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
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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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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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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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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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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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I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as truths already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.
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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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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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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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