It is as if the ordinary language we...... Quote by "William Stafford"

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
— William Stafford

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When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading
— William Stafford

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

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. . . On a sandbar sunlight stretches out its limbs, or is it a sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?
— William Stafford

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This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the grass my father showed us all one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell something better about to happen.
— William Stafford The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

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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

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