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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
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You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
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A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
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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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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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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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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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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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Language can do what it can’t say.
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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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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
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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 root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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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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The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.
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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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So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as second it legends itself deep, the way it is.
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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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