151 Quotes by William Stafford

You happy beings, watch every face for thoseyou pass caught in the midst of lifeby some horror, their souls gone dim, cursedor unlucky, exiled under a stone.

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.

What can anyone give you greater than now,starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

Even the upper end of the riverbelieves in the ocean.

At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if something might happen.

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.

The world speaks everything to us. It is our only friend.

The saddest are those not right in their liveswho 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.

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.