Best William Stafford Quotes
- I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to… Contend
- I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been… Been
- When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere. Anywhere
- It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half. Half
- Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. Bring
- You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down. Aimed
- 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… Anyone
- 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. Cheek
- 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… Comings
- Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides. Able
- I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. Broken
- Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. Childhood
- Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. Growth
- ...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all… All
- Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing… Born
- 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… Bring
- An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears. Along
- I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again. All
- There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough. Block
- Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life.… Ask
- A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say. Attention
- Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and… Accomplish
- 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 are… Among
- Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe,… Beyond
- They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter… Answer