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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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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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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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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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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
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I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.
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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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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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