Poetry Quote by W.S. Merwin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.”

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now 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.”

“from what we cannot hold the stars are made”

“My words are the garment of what I shall never be”

“Utterance”

“part memory part distance remaining”

“Not with a club, the Heart is broken”

“HIS chosen comrades thought at school”

“She traced an imaginary line”

“She wears poetry in her eyes”

“here’s a toast to Alan Turing”

“The first time I saw her,”