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Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Separation Your absence has gone through me Like

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Your absence has gone through me

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: The dead are not separate from the livingeach

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: I have with me all that I do

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: In my youth I believed in somewhere elseI

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: We are not born to survive. Only to

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Poetry is a way of looking at the

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: When I was me I rememberedI could remember

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: I have been younger in October than in

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Through all of youth I was looking for

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: To succeed [,] consider what is as though

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Of course there is nothing the matter with

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Modern poetry, for me, began not in English

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Poetry is like making a joke. If you

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Every year without knowing it I have passed

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: here is the known hand again knowing rememberingat

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Send me out into another lifelord because this

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: A garden is made of hope.

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: I offer you what I have myPoverty

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings

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

Merwin Quotes By Michael Grant: Slice and Dice, Slice and Dice

Slice and Dice, Slice and Dice — Michael Grant

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: I am an abyss that I am trying

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: I wouldn't be happy about being considered a

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: All these years I have looked through your

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Laughter was the shape the darkness took around

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: How beautiful you must beto have been able

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Tell me what you see vanishing and I

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: I have no way of telling what I

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

Merwin Quotes By Michael Grant: It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

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

Merwin Quotes By Michael Grant: You might be useful but my dogs gotta

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: We are the echo of the future.

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: We keep asking where they have gonethose years

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: My cradlewas a shoe.

My cradle
was a shoe. — W.S. Merwin

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: I will take with me the emptiness of

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: What I remember I cannot tellthough it is

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Even there a shining is flowing from all

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: I needed my mistakes in their order to

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: On the last day of the world I

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: As though it had always been forbidden to

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: My words are the garment of what I

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: You grieve Not that heaven does not exist

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: How long ago the day iswhen at last

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

Merwin Quotes By Harold Bloom: The very best of all Merwin: I have

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: The story of each stone leads back to

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: He suggested I pray to the Museget down

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: endless patience will never be enoughthe only hope

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Where will the meanings bewhen the words are

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Certain words now in our knowledge we will

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: We travel far and fast and as we

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: What you remember saves you.

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

Merwin Quotes By W.S. Merwin: Come backbeliever in shadebeliever in silence and elegancebeliever

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