"The simplest science book is over my head." — James Merrill

"The simplest science book is over my head."

— James Merrill

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13 Quotes by James Merrill

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The day is breaking someone else's heart.
In life, there are no perfect affections.
But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own…
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing…
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for…
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and…
At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed.…
I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace…
I see those two hearts, I'm afraid, Still. Cool here in the graveyard of good and evil, They are even…

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