“I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.”
“I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.”
William Stafford
“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.”
William Stafford“When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading”
William Stafford“Between roars the lion purrs.”
William Stafford, Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War“Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.”
William Stafford, Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War“I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.”
William Stafford“I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.”
William Stafford“The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.”
William Stafford“I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?”
William Stafford“It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.”
William Stafford“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.”
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