Author: William Stafford

Cited by

• M. P. Cooley (1)
  • IN: Ice Shear (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. 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.
    FROM: Ask Me, (1981), Poem, US
• Joshilyn Jackson (1)
  • IN: The Opposite of Everyone (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact. And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy, a remote important region in all who talk: though we could fool each other, we should consider -- lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.
    FROM: A Ritual to Read to Each Other, (1998), Poem, US