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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.

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
Glances
Salvation
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Around
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Every
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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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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
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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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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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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
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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 can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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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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I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.
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It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.
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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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If you can say it, it begins to exist.
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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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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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