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I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.

William Stafford

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

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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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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
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Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
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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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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
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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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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 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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A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
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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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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 earth says have a place, be what that place requires hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.
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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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And the things you know before you hear them these are you and the reason you are in the world.
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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
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