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I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together. - William Stafford Quotes

I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.

William Stafford

It is time for all the heroes to go homeif they have any, time for all of us common onesto locate ourselves by the real thingswe live by. - William Stafford Quotes

It is time for all the heroes to go homeif they have any, time for all of us common onesto locate ourselves by the real thingswe live by.

William Stafford

Hero

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. - William Stafford Quotes

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.

William Stafford

. . . You were aimed from birth:you will never be alone. Rainwill come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,long aisles -- you never heard so deep a sound,moss on rock, and years. You turn your head --that's what the silence meant: you're not alone. The whole wide world pours down. - William Stafford Quotes

. . . You were aimed from birth:you will never be alone. Rainwill come, a gutter filled, an Amazon,long aisles -- you never heard so deep a sound,moss on rock, and years. You turn your head --that's what the silence meant: you're not alone. The whole wide world pours down.

William Stafford

Even the upper end of the riverbelieves in the ocean. - William Stafford Quotes

Even the upper end of the riverbelieves in the ocean.

William Stafford

You and I can turn and lookat the silent river and wait. We knowthe current is there, hidden; and thereare comings and goings from miles awaythat hold the stillness exactly before us.What the river says, that is what I say. - William Stafford Quotes

You and I can turn and lookat the silent river and wait. We knowthe current is there, hidden; and thereare comings and goings from miles awaythat hold the stillness exactly before us.What the river says, that is what I say.

William Stafford

"It's love," they say. You touchthe right one and a whole half of the universewakes up, a new half.

William Stafford

Love

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 Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home. - William Stafford Quotes

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

William Stafford

When I dream at night, they save a place for me,no matter how small, somewhere by the fire. - William Stafford Quotes

When I dream at night, they save a place for me,no matter how small, somewhere by the fire.

William Stafford

Fire

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. - William Stafford Quotes

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

William Stafford

My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper,

My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready."

William Stafford

Let the bucket of memory down into the well,bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No onestirring, no plans. Just being there. - William Stafford Quotes

Let the bucket of memory down into the well,bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No onestirring, no plans. Just being there.

William Stafford

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 Quotes

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

Life

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. - 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.

William Stafford

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 . . . - William Stafford Quotes

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 . . .

William Stafford

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. - William Stafford Quotes

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.

William Stafford

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind,

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind,"Who are you really, wanderer?"and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:"Maybe I'm a king."

William Stafford

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. - William Stafford Quotes

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.

William Stafford

Silence on a hill where the path endedand then the forest belowmoving in one long whisperas evening touched the leaves. - William Stafford Quotes

Silence on a hill where the path endedand then the forest belowmoving in one long whisperas evening touched the leaves.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is. - William Stafford Quotes

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

William Stafford

The ocean and I have many pebblesTo find and wash off and roll into shape. - William Stafford Quotes

The ocean and I have many pebblesTo find and wash off and roll into shape.

William Stafford

At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if something might happen. - William Stafford Quotes

At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if something might happen.

William Stafford

Willows never forget how it feelsto be young.Do you remember where you came from? - William Stafford Quotes

Willows never forget how it feelsto be young.Do you remember where you came from?

William Stafford

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why. - William Stafford Quotes

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.

William Stafford

Life

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop? - William Stafford Quotes

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

William Stafford

American Poet People

If you don't know the kind of person I amand I don't know the kind of person you area pattern that others made may prevail in the worldand following the wrong god home we may miss our star. - William Stafford Quotes

If you don't know the kind of person I amand I don't know the kind of person you area pattern that others made may prevail in the worldand following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

William Stafford

Kind

Next time what I'd do is look atthe earth before saying anything. I'd stopjust before going into a houseand be an emperor for a minuteand listen better to the windor to the air being still. - William Stafford Quotes

Next time what I'd do is look atthe earth before saying anything. I'd stopjust before going into a houseand be an emperor for a minuteand listen better to the windor to the air being still.

William Stafford

Earth

The world speaks everything to us.It is our only friend. - William Stafford Quotes

The world speaks everything to us.It is our only friend.

William Stafford

I'll be me, but I don't like it. - William Stafford Quotes

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

William Stafford

You happy beings, watch every face for thoseyou pass caught in the midst of lifeby some horror, their souls gone dim, cursedor unlucky, exiled under a stone. - William Stafford Quotes

You happy beings, watch every face for thoseyou pass caught in the midst of lifeby some horror, their souls gone dim, cursedor unlucky, exiled under a stone.

William Stafford

Life

A great snug wall goes around everything,has always been there, will alwaysremain. It is a good world to belost in. It comforts you. It isall right. And you sleep. - William Stafford Quotes

A great snug wall goes around everything,has always been there, will alwaysremain. It is a good world to belost in. It comforts you. It isall right. And you sleep.

William Stafford

And all the time it's your own story, even when you think --

And all the time it's your own story, even when you think -- "It's all just made up, a trick. What is the author trying to do?" Reader, we are in such a story: all of this is trying to arrange a kind of prayer for you. Pray for me.

William Stafford

Exactly at midnightyesterday sighs away. - William Stafford Quotes

Exactly at midnightyesterday sighs away.

William Stafford

And sometimes when they look in the firethey see time going on and someone alone,but they don't say anything. - William Stafford Quotes

And sometimes when they look in the firethey see time going on and someone alone,but they don't say anything.

William Stafford

Fire

All right. I listen. My life sinks a littlefarther, for the pity; from now on I know itwith them. We'll take a stand, wherever the end is.We go forward by this quiet sharing,they one way, I another. I am their promise:no one else is going to know. - William Stafford Quotes

All right. I listen. My life sinks a littlefarther, for the pity; from now on I know itwith them. We'll take a stand, wherever the end is.We go forward by this quiet sharing,they one way, I another. I am their promise:no one else is going to know.

William Stafford

Life

Well, it was yesterday. And the sun came,WhyIt came. - William Stafford Quotes

Well, it was yesterday. And the sun came,WhyIt came.

William Stafford

Sun

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about. - William Stafford Quotes

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

William Stafford

Shelter in winter that day --a storm coming, but in the leeof an island in a cover with friends --oh, little bright cup of sun. - William Stafford Quotes

Shelter in winter that day --a storm coming, but in the leeof an island in a cover with friends --oh, little bright cup of sun.

William Stafford

Leave sound in an emptyhouse in its own room there. . . . - William Stafford Quotes

Leave sound in an emptyhouse in its own room there. . . .

William Stafford

For it is important that awake people be awake,or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;the signals we give -- yes or no, or maybe --should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. - William Stafford Quotes

For it is important that awake people be awake,or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;the signals we give -- yes or no, or maybe --should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.

William Stafford

Our Father Who art in Heavencan lick their Father Who art in Heaven. - William Stafford Quotes

Our Father Who art in Heavencan lick their Father Who art in Heaven.

William Stafford

Art

Will you ever bring a better gift for the worldthan the breathing respect that you carrywherever you go right now? - William Stafford Quotes

Will you ever bring a better gift for the worldthan the breathing respect that you carrywherever you go right now?

William Stafford

What can anyone give you greater than now,starting here, right in this room, when you turn around? - William Stafford Quotes

What can anyone give you greater than now,starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

William Stafford

We are led one thing at a time to that pure gain -- all that we lose. - William Stafford Quotes

We are led one thing at a time to that pure gain -- all that we lose.

William Stafford

I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact. - William Stafford Quotes

I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

William Stafford

You can't tell when strange things with meaningwill happen. I'm [still] here writing it downjust the way it was.

You can't tell when strange things with meaningwill happen. I'm [still] here writing it downjust the way it was. "You don't have toprove anything," my mother said. "Just be readyfor what God sends."

William Stafford

If you have things right in your lifebut do not know why,you are just lucky, and you will not movein the little ways that encourage good fortune. - William Stafford Quotes

If you have things right in your lifebut do not know why,you are just lucky, and you will not movein the little ways that encourage good fortune.

William Stafford

Life

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. - William Stafford Quotes

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.

William Stafford

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