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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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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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All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.
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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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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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It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
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