I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

William Stafford may refer to:
William Stafford (poet) (1914–1993) American poet
William Stafford (courtier) (c. (born 1931) United States federal judge
William Howard 1st Viscount Stafford (1614-1680) British nobleman and Roman Catholic martyr. Stafford (1869–1957) United States Representative for Wisconsin
William Henry Stafford Jr.