A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~

All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Language can do what it can’t say.