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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.
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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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
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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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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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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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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
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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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Your absence has gone through me
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I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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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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I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.
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Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.
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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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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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When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.
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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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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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