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....

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

I heard a bird congratulating itselfall day for being a jay.Nobody cared. But it was gladall over again,....

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which....

If you don't know the kind of person I amand I don't know the kind of person you area pattern that others....

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind,"Who are you really, wanderer?"--and the answer you....

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.....

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.

I Have a Witness" Sometimes a center the soul can recognize will speak from anywhere , inside a mountain,....