William Stafford Quotes
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
Between roars the lion purrs.
I heard a bird congratulating itselfall day for being a jay.Nobody cared. But it was gladall over again, and said so, again.
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.
. . . On a sandbarsunlight stretches out its limbs, or is ita sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?
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.
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading
They say that history is going on somewhere.They say it won't stop. I have heldOne picture still for a long time and waited.
Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourthof July, I'll bow and remember you. Whoshall we follow next? Who shall we killnext time?
An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.
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.
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?