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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
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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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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
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My question is when did other people give up the idea of being a poet? You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?
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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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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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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
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Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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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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They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, Who are you really, wanderer?-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: Maybe I'm a king.
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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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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
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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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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
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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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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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When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
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Language can do what it can’t say.
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