Quotes by : William Stafford

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The....

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that....

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

This dream the world is having about itselfincludes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,a groove....

Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourthof July, I'll bow and remember you. Whoshall we follow next?....

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers....

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

I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when....

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker.....

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.....