Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
William Stafford
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
Author
Poet
Writer
Hutchinson
Kansas
Person
Accept
Accepting
Artist
Others
Another
May
Persons
Decides
Able
Standards
More quotes by William Stafford
People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
William Stafford
You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
William Stafford
And the things you know before you hear them these are you and the reason you are in the world.
William Stafford
A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
William Stafford
It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.
William Stafford
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
William Stafford
The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
William Stafford
Language can do what it can’t say.
William Stafford
I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
William Stafford
Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
William Stafford
The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
William Stafford
You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.
William Stafford
An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
William Stafford
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
William Stafford
My question is when did other people give up the idea of being a poet? You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?
William Stafford
There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
William Stafford
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
William Stafford
You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
William Stafford
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
William Stafford
When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
William Stafford
