William Stafford Giving Quotations

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.