William Stafford (poet) - Writing the Australian crawl (1964)

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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

A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.

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