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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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Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?
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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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You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about
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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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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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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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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
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Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.
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Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
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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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People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
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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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There are so many things admirable people do not understand.
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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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