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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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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
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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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Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
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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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You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about
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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
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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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Language can do what it can’t say.
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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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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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People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
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Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.
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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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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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The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.
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