“Berryman" I will tell you what he told me in the years just after the war as we then called the second world war don't lose your arrogance yet he said you can do that when you're older lose it… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“…Preserve my eyes, which are irreplaceable. Preserve my heart, veins, bones, Against the slow death building in them like hornets until the place is… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“all these years I have looked through your limbs to the river below and the roofs and the night and you were the way… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“I have no way of telling what I miss I am the only one who misses it” — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“A BIRTHDAY Something continues and I don't know what to call it though the language is full of suggestions in the way of language… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“October" I remember how I would say, “I will gather These pieces together, Any minute now I will make A knife out of a… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“...The silence of a place where there were once horses is a mountain and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain once fell… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put my faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree” — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“How beautiful you must be to have been able to lead me this far with only the sound of your going away” — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“I turned to the room and in the light from the street beheld one beautiful bare breast of a friend's friend gently rising and… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“…Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or quake. But… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
![“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies and selling socks, advertising and conducting law. Whereas we don't write little concerti to each other, or paint pictures.” quote by W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d26/w-s-merwin-2-23725_art_the-thing-that-makes-poetry-different-fr_508289.jpg)
