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> [“Place" On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not the fruit the tree that bears the fruit is not the one that was planted I want the tree that stands in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/place-on-the-last-day-of-the-world-i-would-want-to-plant-a-tree-what/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

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## More by W.S. Merwin

> [“…Preserve my eyes, which are irreplaceable. Preserve my heart, veins, bones, Against the slow death building in them like hornets until the place is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/preserve-my-eyes-which-are-irreplaceable-preserve-my-heart-veins/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“all these years I have looked through your limbs to the river below and the roofs and the night and you were the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/all-these-years-i-have-looked-through-your-limbs-to-the-river-below/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“I have no way of telling what I miss I am the only one who misses it”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/i-have-no-way-of-telling-what-i-miss-i-am-the-only-one-who-misses-it/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/the-thing-that-makes-poetry-different-from-all-other-arts-is-that-you/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/a-birthday-something-continues-and-i-don-t-know-what-to-call-it/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“October" I remember how I would say, “I will gather These pieces together, Any minute now I will make A knife out of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/october-i-remember-how-i-would-say-i-will-gather-these-pieces/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“...The silence of a place where there were once horses is a mountain and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain once fell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/the-silence-of-a-place-where-there-were-once-horses-is-a-mountain-and/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put my faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/in-my-youth-i-believed-in-somewhere-else-i-put-my-faith-in-travel-now/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“How beautiful you must be to have been able to lead me this far with only the sound of your going away”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/how-beautiful-you-must-be-to-have-been-able-to-lead-me-this-far-with/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/i-turned-to-the-room-and-in-the-light-from-the-street-beheld-one/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“…Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or quake. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/let-all-lights-but-yours-be-nothing-to-me-let-the-memory-of-tongues/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“Tell me what you see vanishing and I will tell you who you are”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/tell-me-what-you-see-vanishing-and-i-will-tell-you-who-you-are/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“where will the meanings be when the words are forgotten will I see again where you are”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/where-will-the-meanings-be-when-the-words-are-forgotten-will-i-see/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“...Yes, now the roads themselves are shattered As though they had fallen from a height, and the sky Is cracked like varnish. Hard to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/yes-now-the-roads-themselves-are-shattered-as-though-they-had-fallen/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

> [“Place" On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not the fruit the tree that bears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-s-merwin-2/place-on-the-last-day-of-the-world-i-would-want-to-plant-a-tree-what/)

[W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-s-merwin-2/)

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