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
 Poetry

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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

 Communication
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.

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. . . 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

 American Poet
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

 Discovery
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

 
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