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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Hutchinson
Kansas
Birth
Alone
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Whole
Never
World
Pours
Aimed
Wide

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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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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
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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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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
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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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