William Stafford may refer to:
- William Stafford (courtier) (c. 1500–1556), courtier to Henry VIII and Edward VI of England
- William Stafford (conspirator) (1554–1612), courtier and conspirator
- William Stafford (author) (1593–1684), British author
- William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (1614-1680), British nobleman and Roman Catholic martyr
- William H. Stafford (1869–1957), United States Representative for Wisconsin
- William Stafford (poet) (1914–1993), American poet
- William Henry Stafford Jr. (born 1931), United States federal judge
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“At noon in the desert a panting lizard
waited for history, its elbows tense,
watching the curve of a particular road
as if something might happen.”
—William Stafford (1914–1941)
“The Heavens. Once an object of superstition, awe and fear. Now a vast region for growing knowledge. The distance of Venus, the atmosphere of Mars, the size of Jupiter, and the speed of Mercury. All this and more we know. But their greatest mystery the heavens have kept a secret. What sort of life, if any, inhabits these other planets? Human life, like ours? Or life extremely lower in the scale. Or dangerously higher.”
—Richard Blake, and William Cameron Menzies. Narrator, Invaders from Mars, at the opening of the movie (1953)
“a doe, a recent killing;
she had stiffened already, almost cold.
I dragged her off she was large in the belly.”
—William Stafford (1914–1941)