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People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
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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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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'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.
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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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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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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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Language can do what it can’t say.
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If you can say it, it begins to exist.
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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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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
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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.
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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
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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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