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Separation
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color. — W.S. Merwin

Your absence has gone through me — W.S. Merwin

The dead are not separate from the living
each has one foot in the unknown
and cannot speak for the other — W.S. Merwin

I have with me all that I do not know. I have lost none of it. — W.S. Merwin

In my youth I believed in somewhere else
I put my faith in travel
now I am becoming my own tree — W.S. Merwin

We are not born to survive. Only to live. — W.S. Merwin

Now all my teachers are dead except silence. — W.S. Merwin

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time. — W.S. Merwin

Part memory part distance remaining
mine in the ways that I learn to miss you — W.S. Merwin

When I was me I remembered
I could remember what was not there
but may have been there
once — W.S. Merwin

I have been younger in October
than in all the months of spring. — W.S. Merwin

Through all of youth I was looking for you
without knowing what I was looking for — W.S. Merwin

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple. — W.S. Merwin

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning — W.S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. — W.S. Merwin

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. — W.S. Merwin

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me — W.S. Merwin

here is the known hand again knowing remembering
at night after the doubting and the news of age — W.S. Merwin

Send me out into another life
lord because this one is growing faint
I do not think it goes all the way — W.S. Merwin

A garden is made of hope. — W.S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my
Poverty — W.S. Merwin

Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings — W.S. Merwin

Slice and Dice, Slice and Dice — Michael Grant

I am an abyss that I am trying to cross. — W.S. Merwin

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W.S. Merwin

All these years I have looked through your limbs
to the river below and the roofs and the night
and you were the way I saw the world — W.S. Merwin

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light. — W.S. Merwin

How beautiful you must be
to have been able to lead me
this far with only
the sound of your going away — W.S. Merwin

Tell me what you see vanishing and I will tell you who you are — W.S. Merwin

I have no way of telling what I miss
I am the only one who misses it — W.S. Merwin

It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done. — Michael Grant

We are asleep with compasses in our hands. — W.S. Merwin

You might be useful but my dogs gotta eat. — Michael Grant

We are the echo of the future. — W.S. Merwin

We keep asking where they have gone
those years we remember and we
reach for them like hands in the night — W.S. Merwin

My cradle
was a shoe. — W.S. Merwin

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere — W.S. Merwin

What I remember I cannot tell
though it is there in all that I say — W.S. Merwin

Even there a shining is flowing from all the stones
though the eyes are not yet made that can see it — W.S. Merwin

I needed my mistakes
in their order
to get me here — W.S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree — W.S. Merwin

As though it had always been forbidden to remember
each of us grew up
knowing nothing about the beginning — W.S. Merwin

My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. — W.S. Merwin

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us — W.S. Merwin

How long ago the day is
when at last I look at it
with the time it has taken
to be there still in it — W.S. Merwin

The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy. — Harold Bloom

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain. — W.S. Merwin

He suggested I pray to the Muse
get down on my knees and pray
right there in the corner and he
said he meant it literally — W.S. Merwin

endless patience will never be enough
the only hope is to be the daylight — W.S. Merwin

Where will the meanings be
when the words are forgotten
will I see again
where you are — W.S. Merwin

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture. — W.S. Merwin

We travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been — W.S. Merwin

What you remember saves you. — W.S. Merwin

Come back
believer in shade
believer in silence and elegance
believer in ferns
believer in patience
believer in the rain — W.S. Merwin