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W. S. Merwin Quotes

W. S. Merwin quotes

American Poet September 30, 1927

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Inside this pencil crouch words that have never been written never been spoken never been taught they’re hiding they’re awake in there dark in the dark hearing us but they won’t come out not for love not for time not for fire even when the dark has worn away they’ll still be there hiding in the air multitudes in days to come may walk through them breathe them be none the wiser what script can it be that they won’t unroll in what language would I recognize it would I be able to follow... W. S. Merwin
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless... W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I..."
part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you W. S. Merwin
After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it. W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "we travel far and fastand as we pass through we forgetwhere we..."
we travel far and fastand as we pass through we forgetwhere we have been W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "Now all my teachers are dead except silence."
Now all my teachers are dead except silence. W. S. Merwin
I had hardly begun to read. I asked how can you ever be surethat what you write is reallyany good at all and he said you can'tyou can't you can never be sureyou die without knowingwhether anything you wrote was any goodif you have to be sure don't write W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "come backbeliever in shadebeliever in silence and..."
come backbeliever in shadebeliever in silence and elegancebeliever in fernsbeliever in patiencebeliever in the rain W. S. Merwin
So this is what I am. Pondering his eyes that could not. Conceive that I was a creature to run from. I who have always believed too much in words W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in..."
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the..."
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
...The silence of a place where there were once horsesis a mountainand I have seen by lightning that ever mountainonce fell from the airringinglike the chime of an iron shoe... W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread..."
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "The story of each stone leads back to a mountain."
The story of each stone leads back to a mountain. W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin quote: "My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the..."
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. W. S. Merwin

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