I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
William StaffordLiterature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
William Stafford...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
William StaffordI have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.
William Stafford