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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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Language can do what it can’t say.
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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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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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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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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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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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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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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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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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I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.
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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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So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as second it legends itself deep, the way it is.
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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 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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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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