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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 livingeach has one foot in the unknown
and cannot speak for the other — W.S. Merwin
In my youth I believed in somewhere elseI 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
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. — 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
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When I was me I rememberedI could remember what was not there
but may have been there
once — W.S. Merwin
here is the known hand again knowing rememberingat night after the doubting and the news of age — W.S. Merwin
Send me out into another lifelord 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 myPoverty — W.S. Merwin
Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings
— W.S. Merwin
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
How beautiful you must beto have been able to lead me
this far with only
the sound of your going away — W.S. Merwin
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
— W.S. Merwin
We are the echo of the future.
— W.S. Merwin
We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and we
reach for them like hands in the night — W.S. Merwin
My cradlewas 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
Even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough 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
As though it had always been forbidden to remembereach of us grew up
knowing nothing about the beginning — W.S. Merwin
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
— W.S. Merwin
How long ago the day iswhen at last I look at it
with the time it has taken
to be there still in it — W.S. Merwin
The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
— W.S. Merwin
He suggested I pray to the Museget down on my knees and pray
right there in the corner and he
said he meant it literally — W.S. Merwin
What you remember saves you.
— W.S. Merwin
Every year without knowing it I have passed the dayWhen the last fires will wave to me — W.S. Merwin
