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Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way

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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New York City
New York
William Stanley Merwin
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Another
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Think
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Faint
Life
Send
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Growing

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On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
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I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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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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This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along the tiles under the moon wind rising and falling wind with many clouds trees in the night wind.
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I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.
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I offer you what I have my Poverty
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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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But most love poetry is awful nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
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Your absence has gone through me
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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We are the echo of the future.
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Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence.
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What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.
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we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been
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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
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I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.
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I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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