Silence on a hill where the path ended and then the forest below moving in one long whisper as evening touched the leaves. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 1
The saddest are those not right in their lives who are acting to make things right for others: they act only from the self -- and that self will never be right: no luck, no help, no wisdom. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
So, the world happens twice -- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
At noon in the desert a panting lizard waited for history, its elbows tense, watching the curve of a particular road as if something might happen. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
Willows never forget how it feels to be young. Do you remember where you came from? William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
Next time what I'd do is look at the earth before saying anything. I'd stop just before going into a house and be an emperor for a minute and listen better to the wind or to the air being still. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
When I dream at night, they save a place for me, no matter how small, somewhere by the fire. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
My name is William Tell: when little oppressions touch me arrows hidden in my cloak whisper, "Ready, ready.". William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
The world speaks everything to us. It is our only friend. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
You happy beings, watch every face for those you pass caught in the midst of life by some horror, their souls gone dim, cursed or unlucky, exiled under a stone. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
A great snug wall goes around everything, has always been there, will always remain. It is a good world to be lost in. It comforts you. It is all right. And you sleep. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
And all the time it's your own story, even when you think -- "It's all just made up, a trick. What is the author trying to do?" Reader, we are in such a story: all of this is trying to arrange a kind of prayer for you. Pray for me. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
It is time for all the heroes to go home if they have any, time for all of us common ones to locate ourselves by the real things we live by. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
Well, it was yesterday. And the sun came, Why It came. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
"It's love," they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
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. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
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 goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
. . . You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone. Rain will come, a gutter filled, an Amazon, long aisles -- you never heard so deep a sound, moss on rock, and years. You turn your head -- that's what the silence meant: you're not alone. The whole wide world pours down. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0
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. William Stafford More William Stafford Quotes 0