Quotes by : W.S. Merwin

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched....

We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night....

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to....

So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who....

A garden is made of hope.

even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it

Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for

What you remember saves you.

from what we cannot hold the stars are made