 | Title (Subject) | |
|---|
| (Quoted in) The Language of Life (Poetry as inclusion) | |
| The Darkness Around Us is Deep (Stafford's theme of the golden thread) | |
 Bohr, Neils | |
| (Wise Quotes: Profound Truths) | |
| Brecht, Bertolt | |
| (Art is not a mirror) | |
| Things Change (Bertolt Brecht on happiness) | |
| Ode to a High Dignitary (Brecht's poem on happiness) | |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | |
| The Lady's Yes (E.B. Browning Poem) | |
| Browning, Robert | |
| A Lovers' Quarrel (Love and absence) | |
| Buechner, Frederick | |
| Now and Then (Incarnate words) | |
| The Longing for Home (Return to beginnings) | |
| Now and Then (The lump in the throat) | |
| The Longing for Home (Seeing the world whole) | |
| The Longing for Home (The process of writing) | |
| Listening to Your Life (To Go On Trying) | |
| Listening to Your Life (Quality of Time) | |
| The Longing for Home (The longing to be fully known) | |
| Byron, Lord | |
| Letter to Annabella Milbanke (The lava of imagination) | |
| Don Juan (Passionate Love) | |
| Carroll, Lewis | |
| (Good advice for writers) | |
| Cavafy, C.P. | |
| Return (Poem: Return) | |
| Clifton, Lucille | |
| (Quoted in) The Language of Life (Art, fear and safety) | |