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W.S. Merwin quotes: Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. Separation
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
W.S. Merwin quotes: Your absence has gone through me Your absence has gone through me
W.S. Merwin quotes: The dead are not separate from the livingeach has one foot in the unknownand cannot speak for the other The dead are not separate from the living
each has one foot in the unknown
and cannot speak for the other
W.S. Merwin quotes: I have with me all that I do not know. I have lost none of it. I have with me all that I do not know. I have lost none of it.
W.S. Merwin quotes: In my youth I believed in somewhere elseI put my faith in travelnow I am becoming my own tree In my youth I believed in somewhere else
I put my faith in travel
now I am becoming my own tree
W.S. Merwin quotes: We are not born to survive. Only to live. We are not born to survive. Only to live.
W.S. Merwin quotes: Now all my teachers are dead except silence. Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W.S. Merwin quotes: Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time. Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
W.S. Merwin quotes: My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.
W.S. Merwin quotes: Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. 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 quotes: Part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you Part memory part distance remaining
mine in the ways that I learn to miss you
W.S. Merwin quotes: 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 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for Through all of youth I was looking for you
without knowing what I was looking for
W.S. Merwin quotes: I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring. I have been younger in October
than in all the months of spring.
W.S. Merwin quotes: When I was me I rememberedI could remember what was not therebut may have been thereonce When I was me I remembered
I could remember what was not there
but may have been there
once
W.S. Merwin quotes: here is the known hand again knowing rememberingat night after the doubting and the news of age here is the known hand again knowing remembering
at night after the doubting and the news of age
W.S. Merwin quotes: Send me out into another lifelord because this one is growing faintI do not think it goes all the way 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 quotes: A garden is made of hope. A garden is made of hope.
W.S. Merwin quotes: Tell me what you see vanishing and I will tell you who you are Tell me what you see vanishing and I will tell you who you are
W.S. Merwin quotes: I offer you what I have myPoverty I offer you what I have my
Poverty
W.S. Merwin quotes: Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings
W.S. Merwin quotes: I am an abyss that I am trying to cross. I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.
W.S. Merwin quotes: I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. 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 quotes: All these years I have looked through your limbsto the river below and the roofs and the nightand you were the way I saw the world 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 quotes: Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light. Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
W.S. Merwin quotes: How beautiful you must beto have been able to lead methis far with onlythe sound of your going away 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 quotes: You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
W.S. Merwin quotes: We are asleep with compasses in our hands. We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W.S. Merwin quotes: We are the echo of the future. We are the echo of the future.
W.S. Merwin quotes: We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night We keep asking where they have gone
those years we remember and we
reach for them like hands in the night
W.S. Merwin quotes: My cradlewas a shoe. My cradle
was a shoe.
W.S. Merwin quotes: I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
W.S. Merwin quotes: What I remember I cannot tellthough it is there in all that I say What I remember I cannot tell
though it is there in all that I say
W.S. Merwin quotes: Even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it Even there a shining is flowing from all the stones
though the eyes are not yet made that can see it
W.S. Merwin quotes: I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here I needed my mistakes
in their order
to get me here
W.S. Merwin quotes: On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
W.S. Merwin quotes: As though it had always been forbidden to remembereach of us grew upknowing nothing about the beginning As though it had always been forbidden to remember
each of us grew up
knowing nothing about the beginning
W.S. Merwin quotes: I have no way of telling what I missI am the only one who misses it I have no way of telling what I miss
I am the only one who misses it
W.S. Merwin quotes: Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
W.S. Merwin quotes: How long ago the day iswhen at last I look at itwith the time it has takento be there still in it 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 quotes: The story of each stone leads back to a mountain. The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
W.S. Merwin quotes: He suggested I pray to the Museget down on my knees and prayright there in the corner and hesaid he meant it literally 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 quotes: endless patience will never be enoughthe only hope is to be the daylight endless patience will never be enough
the only hope is to be the daylight
W.S. Merwin quotes: Where will the meanings bewhen the words are forgottenwill I see againwhere you are Where will the meanings be
when the words are forgotten
will I see again
where you are
W.S. Merwin quotes: 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. 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 quotes: We travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been We travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been
W.S. Merwin quotes: What you remember saves you. What you remember saves you.
W.S. Merwin quotes: Every year without knowing it I have passed the dayWhen the last fires will wave to me Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
W.S. Merwin quotes: Come backbeliever in shadebeliever in silence and elegancebeliever in fernsbeliever in patiencebeliever in the rain Come back
believer in shade
believer in silence and elegance
believer in ferns
believer in patience
believer in the rain

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