Quotes by : W.S. Merwin

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

On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree

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....

A garden is made of hope.

I offer you what I have myPoverty

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

part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you

from what we cannot hold the stars are made