William Stafford Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Ask Me 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.

  William Stafford

  Hurt, Hate, Mistake

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.19, Macmillan

• 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.

  William Stafford

  Rivers, Silence, Waiting

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

• 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.

  William Stafford

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  William Stafford (1977). “Stories that could be true: new and collected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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