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William Stafford - From the Belief category:
Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Experience category:
I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Journey category:
When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Journey category:
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. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Life category:
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. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Love category:
'It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Memory category:
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one
stirring, no plans. Just being there. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Music category:
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Purpose category:
You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Questions category:
A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Searching category:
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. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Silence category:
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. (William Stafford)
William Stafford - From the Standards category:
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides. (William Stafford)
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