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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
W. S. Merwin
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W. S. Merwin
Age: 91 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 15
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William Stanley Merwin
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Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
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After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.
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Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
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My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.
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If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.
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We are the echo of the future.
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I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.
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We are not born to survive. Only to live.
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