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People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
William Stafford
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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
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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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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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...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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Language can do what it can’t say.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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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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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 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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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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I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.
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