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I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Hutchinson
Kansas
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Pavlov

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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
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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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The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.
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You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.
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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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Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
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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 greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
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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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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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Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
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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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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
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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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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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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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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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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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