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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
William Stafford
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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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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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Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
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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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You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about
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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
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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.
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A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
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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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The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
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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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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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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
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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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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
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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'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.
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Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.
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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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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
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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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