William Stafford Quotes

• He tejido un paracaídas con todo lo roto.

  William Stafford

  Kindness, Not Giving Up, Thoughtful

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• The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.

  William Stafford

  Talking, World, Hearing

  "Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation".

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• Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

  William Stafford

  Real, Caring, People

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• Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.

  William Stafford

  Morning, Party, Thinking

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• You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

  William Stafford

  Talking, Needs, Knows

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• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

  William Stafford

  Dance, Children, Kids

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~

  William Stafford

  Letting Go, Hurt, People

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• 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

  Butterfly, Discovery, Experience

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Si purificas el estanque, los lirios mueren

  William Stafford

  Ponds, Lilies, Dies

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• And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

  William Stafford

  World, Reason, Knows

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• 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

  Rivers, Silence, Waiting

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

  William Stafford

  Block, Enough, Lows

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• 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.

  William Stafford

  Process, Found, New Things

  William Stafford (1978). “Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation”

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• Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

  William Stafford

  Breathe, Rhythm

  William Stafford (1978). “Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation”

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• Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.

  William Stafford

  Dream, Writing, Space

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• ...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

  William Stafford

  Fear, Going Away, World

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

  William Stafford

  Bird, Said, Heard

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• If you don't know the kind of person I am
  and I don't know the kind of person you are
  a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
  and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

  William Stafford

  Stars, Home, Missing

  William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.89, Milkweed Editions

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• Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

  William Stafford

  Beach, Believe, Ocean

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• Una vez que hemos probado arroyos lejanos, tocado el oro, encontrado algún límite más allá de la cascada, cambia una estación y volvemos cambiados pero seguros, tranquilos, agradecidos.

  William Stafford

  Grateful, Gold, Safe

  William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.99, Milkweed Editions

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• You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

  William Stafford

  Exercise, Self, Quirky

  William Stafford (1986). “You must revise your life”, University of Michigan Press

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• Language can do what it can’t say.

  William Stafford

  Language, Can Do

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

  William Stafford

  Life, Wisdom, Learning

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.34, Macmillan

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• I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.

  William Stafford

  Art, Teaching, Decision

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (2003). “The answers are inside the mountains: meditations on the writing life”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

  William Stafford

  Flower, Roots, Doe

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