Mouths Quote by W. S. Merwin

“To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.” quote by W. S. Merwin — Download Open image

“To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.”

W. S. Merwin

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Mouths Pointing Sometimes Way Where we came Who we are

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