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 offer you what I have my”

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

“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.”

“So this is what I am”

“Separation”

“I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or swum... I am not a tourist nor a spectator... this is the life I have left, and I will not waste it like some rubber-neck”

“Every angel is terrifying.”

“Behold, we know not anything;”

“He ate and drank the precious words,”

“You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?”

“When she left me”