“ Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. W.S. Merwin
“ Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. W.S. Merwin
“ We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night W.S. Merwin
“ I 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 whil… W.S. Merwin
“ So 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 words W.S. Merwin
“ A BIRTHDAY Something continues and I don't know what to call itthough the language is full of suggestionsin the way of languagebut they are all anonymousand it's almost your birthday music next to my… 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
“ My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. W.S. Merwin
