William Stafford Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

  William Stafford

  Development, Definitions, Language

• I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

  William Stafford

  Writing, Feelings, Progress

• Language can do what it can’t say.

  William Stafford

  Language, Can Do

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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

  William Stafford

  Secret, Ordinary, Use

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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