151 Quotes by William Stafford

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.

Language can do what it can’t say.

All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.

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