Famous Quotes by W.S. Merwin

“UtteranceSitting over wordsVery late I have heard a kind of whispered sighingNot farLike a night wind in pines or like the sea in the darkThe echo of everything that has everBeen spokenStill spinning its one syllableBetween the earth and silence”

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

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

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