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William Edgar Stafford Quote: “Your job is to find out what the world is trying to be.”

51. “Your job is to find out what the world is trying to be.”

— William Edgar Stafford

William Edgar Stafford Quote: “Poetry Its door opens near. It’s a shrine by the road, it’s a flower in the parking lot of The Pentagon, it says, “Look around, listen. Feel the air.” It interrupts international telephone lines with a tune. When traffic lines jam, it gets out and dances on the bridge. If great people get distracted by fame they forget this essential kind of breathing and they die inside their gold shell. When caravans cross deserts it is the secret treasure hidden under the jewels.”

52. “Poetry Its door opens near. It’s a shrine by the road, it’s a flower in the parking lot of The Pentagon, it says, “Look around, listen. Feel the air.” It interrupts international telephone lines with a tune. When traffic lines jam, it gets out and dances on the bridge. If great people get distracted by fame they forget this essential kind of breathing and they die inside their gold shell. When caravans cross deserts it is the secret treasure hidden under the jewels.”

— William Edgar Stafford

William Edgar Stafford Quote: “Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs – puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.”

53. “Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs – puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.”

— William Edgar Stafford

William Edgar Stafford Quote: “Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.”

54. “Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.”

— William Edgar Stafford

William Edgar Stafford Quote: “To do it artificially, to try to hype myself into being a better writer by doggedly reading better literature, is also a mistake. I learn to use the language by the pleasures it gives me when I am able to swim in it or maneuver in it or interchange in it with the people around me.”

55. “To do it artificially, to try to hype myself into being a better writer by doggedly reading better literature, is also a mistake. I learn to use the language by the pleasures it gives me when I am able to swim in it or maneuver in it or interchange in it with the people around me.”

— William Edgar Stafford

William Edgar Stafford Quote: “The wars we haven’t had saved many lives.”

56. “The wars we haven’t had saved many lives.”

— William Edgar Stafford

William Edgar Stafford Quote: “In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone – the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.”

57. “In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone – the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.”

— William Edgar Stafford

William Edgar Stafford Quote: “Before you have your dreams, your dreams have you, and every day pushes a night before it while the wilderness follows.”

58. “Before you have your dreams, your dreams have you, and every day pushes a night before it while the wilderness follows.”

— William Edgar Stafford

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