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”

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

“So this is what I am”

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

“from what we cannot hold the stars are made”

“It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.”

“True love. Is it normal”

“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”

“The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.”

“In my darkest night,”

“Every beginning has an end and every end has a new beginning, don't worry, broken soul, life will one day come to an end.”