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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
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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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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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