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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

William Stafford

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.
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You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
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If you can say it, it begins to exist.
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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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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
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The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.
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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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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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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
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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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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.
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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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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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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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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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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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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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