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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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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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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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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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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 have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
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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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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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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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Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?
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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
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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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