William Stafford
William Stafford
Prolific American poet and 1970 U.S. Poet Laureate who won the National Book Award for Traveling Through the Dark. His numerous other works include In the Clock of Reason, Brother Wind, Passwords, and Wyoming Circuit.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 January 1914
CountryUnited States of America
artist able may
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
language can-do
Language can do what it can’t say.
summer winter wind
All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.
trying way injustice
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
book goats likes
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
writing assessment differences
You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.
bird earth sound
The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.
serious crafts jokes
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
ownership glances
The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
process found new-things
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 new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
enhancement literature flow
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
breathing world right-now
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?
decision life-is distraction
Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
breathe rhythm
Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.