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Letter "W" » William Stafford Quotes
«Some time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life. Othershave come in their slow way intomy thought, and some have tried to helpor to hurt: ask me what differencetheir strongest love or hate has made.»
«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. That is, he does not draw on a reservoir; instead, he engages in an activity that brings to him a whole succession of unforeseen stories, poems, essays, plays, laws, philosophies, religions . . .»
Author: William Stafford
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bring about, engages, essay, Essays, philosophies, poems, reservoir, reservoirs, succession, unforeseen
«They tell how it was, and how timecame along, and how it happenedagain and again. They tellthe slant life takes when it turnsand slashes your face as a friend.»
Author: William Stafford
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again and again, slant, slanted, slanting, slash, slashed, slashes
«Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye. You can be too well prepared for poetry. A conscientious interest in it is worse than no interest at all. . . . It's like a very faint star. If you look straight at it you can't see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.»
«Silence on a hill where the path endedand then the forest belowmoving in one long whisperas evening touched the leaves.»
«The saddest are those not right in their liveswho are acting to make things right for others:they act only from the self --and that self will never be right:no luck, no help, no wisdom.»
«So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.»
Author: William Stafford
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legends
«The ocean and I have many pebblesTo find and wash off and roll into shape.»
«At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if something might happen.»
«I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.»
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