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

“So this is what I am”

“part memory part distance remaining”

“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”

“I offer you what I have my”

“Utterance”

“I believe”

“Repelled by cruelty”

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.”

“You fit into me”

“Poetry is an orphan of silence.”