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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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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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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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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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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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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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