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Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
William Stafford
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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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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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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
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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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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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You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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If you purify the pond, the lilies die
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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
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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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And the things you know before you hear them these are you and the reason you are in the world.
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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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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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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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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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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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...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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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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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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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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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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