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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

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
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Glances
Ownership
Greatest
Understand
Around

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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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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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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
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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 can say it, it begins to exist.
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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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People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
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You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about
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A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
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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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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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Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.
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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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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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When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.
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I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.
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