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On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
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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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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I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.
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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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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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So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words
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I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here
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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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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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From what we cannot hold the stars are made.
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
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I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
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My cradle was a shoe.
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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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I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
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