151 Quotes by William Stafford

...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.

They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind,"Who are you really, wanderer?"--and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:"Maybe I'm a king.

Why I Am HappyNow has come, an easy time. I let it roll. There is a lake somewhere so blue and far nobody owns it. A wind comes by and a willow listens gracefully. I hear all this, every summer. I laugh and cry for every turn of the world, its terribly cold, innocent spin. That lake stays blue and free; it goes on and on. And I know where it is.

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

I Have a Witness" Sometimes a center the soul can recognize will speak from anywhere , inside a mountain, or froma whirlwind ... The world can take, the soulrestores. A million wrong voices proclaim One light lives forever.

They say that history is going on somewhere.They say it won't stop. I have heldOne picture still for a long time and waited.

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.