People Quote by William Stafford

“I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?”

William Stafford

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People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.

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Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

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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.…

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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 Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you…

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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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“We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.”

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“There may be losses too great to understand That rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand.”

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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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My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up…

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The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing…

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“I am your own way of looking at things," she said. "When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world…

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