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

“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.”

“Utterance”

“I offer you what I have my”

“from what we cannot hold the stars are made”

“Separation”

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

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

“Not words.”

“Love is a clash of lightnings”

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”

“I am no longer knocking at death’s door but the path is still familiar.”

“wings greater than wings”