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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

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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Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way
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We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.
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You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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My cradle was a shoe.
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The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in...
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I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.
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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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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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We are not born to survive. Only to live.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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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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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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I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
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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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