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
common heroes locate ourselves time
It is time for all the heroes to go homeif they have any, time for all of us common onesto locate ourselves by the real thingswe live by.
common heroes home locate ourselves time
It is time for all the heroes to go home if they have any, time for all of us common ones to locate ourselves by the real things we live by.
developing language occur relation using words
These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.
butterfly discovery embrace emerging experience
I embrace emerging experience.I participate in discovery.I am a butterfly.I am not a butterfly collector.I want the experience of the butterfly.
comforts goes good great wall
A great snug wall goes around everything,has always been there, will alwaysremain. It is a good world to belost in. It comforts you. It isall right. And you sleep.
arrange author prayer time trying
And all the time it's your own story, even when you think -- "It's all just made up, a trick. What is the author trying to do?" Reader, we are in such a story: all of this is trying to arrange a kind of prayer for you. Pray for me.
hidden name touch william
My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready.
call cruel maybe occurs recognize root
I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact.
speaks
The world speaks everything to us. It is our only friend.
half
It's love," they say. You touchthe right one and a whole half of the universewakes up, a new half.
answer dark matter miss whisper
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.
acting saddest self
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.
acting lives saddest self 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.
below ended evening forest hill moving path silence touched whisper
Silence on a hill where the path ended and then the forest below moving in one long whisper as evening touched the leaves.