Quotes by W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

Cutting

Night

Rain

But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that’s not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

Good Love

Political

Writing

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

Rain

Shade

Silence

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

Death

Fire

Self

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it’s necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

Joy

Order

Thinking

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

Months

October

Spring

I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry 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.

Thinking

Trying

World

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

Emptiness

Hands

I’m very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It’s not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we’re doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

Hard Times

Rest Of Life

Tolls

If there’d been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That’s not the way this setup work.

Different

Might

Thinking

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Absence

Attitude

Believe

Bird

Born

Boys

Cells

Cradle

Cutting

Dark

Death

Different

Echoes

Emptiness

Ends

Eye

Fall

Fire

Garments

Gone

Good Love

Growing

Hands

Hard Times

Hate

Hopeful

I Miss You

Ideas

Joy

Life

Live Life

Lorca

Lost

Might

Missing Someone

Missing You

Modern

Modern Poetry

Months

Moon

Morning

Mountain

Night

Numbness

October

Order

People

Poetry

Political

Pyramids

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Quotes by W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that’s not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it’s necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry 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.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

I’m very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It’s not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we’re doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

If there’d been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That’s not the way this setup work.

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