I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
In a sense, much that is learned is bound to be bad habits. You're always beginning again. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time... it is a kind of joy in being alive in… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
