William Stafford World Quotations

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

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

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

...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.

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing the things you do not have to hear dulls your hearing. And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.