To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for part memory part distance remaining mine… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been… — 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
You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The Indians seemed to be living in a place and in a way that was of immense importance to me. So I… — 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… — 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
The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species,… — 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… — 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
If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you… — 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
