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

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?
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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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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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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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