02UndatedSeparation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.W.S. Merwin / quote ↗
03Undatedpart memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss youW.S. Merwin / quote ↗
04UndatedMy words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.W.S. Merwin / quote ↗
07UndatedModern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.W.S. Merwin / quote ↗
08UndatedSo this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in wordsW.S. Merwin / quote ↗
10UndatedWe keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the nightW.S. Merwin / quote ↗
11UndatedThrough all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking forW.S. Merwin / quote ↗
12Undatedeven there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see itW.S. Merwin / quote ↗
14UndatedI think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.W.S. Merwin / quote ↗
