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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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
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William Stanley Merwin
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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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The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.
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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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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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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
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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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My cradle was a shoe.
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What you remember saves you.
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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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I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.
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From what we cannot hold the stars are made.
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We are not born to survive. Only to live.
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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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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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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
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