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we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been
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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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.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
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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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My cradle was a shoe.
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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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