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

“Wisdom is having things right in your life”

“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.”

“The Way It Is”

““Wisdom is having things right in your life”

“I heard a bird congratulating itself”

“I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die.”

“We pull our boots on with both hands”

“I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him.”

“From the union of power and money,”

“She wore his love like a loaded gun.”

“the moon has consistently remained by my side in my darkest of times and when everyone left me to my nightmares, the sun has always been there to wake me up...”