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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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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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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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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'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.
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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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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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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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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
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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 can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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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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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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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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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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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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If you can say it, it begins to exist.
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