Poetry Quote by William Stafford — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Wisdom is having things right in your life”

““Wisdom is having things right in your life”

“I heard a bird congratulating itself”

“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”

“This dream the world is having about itself”

“They say that “time assuages,”—”

“They call each other ‘E.’ Elvis picks”

“Be there a picnic for the devil,”

“Some days I wake up”

“I wonder”

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language.”