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
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I'll be me, but I don't like it.
american-poet people starts
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
dream fire matter save somewhere
When I dream at night, they save a place for me,no matter how small, somewhere by the fire.
dream matter save somewhere
When I dream at night, they save a place for me, no matter how small, somewhere by the fire.
jobs communication writing
I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.
flower roots doe
The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
lying kitchen honest
You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
ifs
If you can say it, it begins to exist.
land alive world
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
writing process found
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
secret use ordinary
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
exercise self quirky
You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.