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”

“The Way It Is”

“This dream the world is having about 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.”

“To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop”

“You lethargic, waiting upon me,”

“J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyère”

“Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.”

“Suddenly it's December and you're not 17 anymore. And you haven't been 17 for a very long time, but sometimes you need to remind yourself.”

“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty”