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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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Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.
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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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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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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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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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An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
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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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If you can say it, it begins to exist.
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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 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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Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
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You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.
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I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
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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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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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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
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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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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
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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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