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

“Separation”

“I offer you what I have my”

“Utterance”

“part memory part distance remaining”

“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.”

“She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her soul. She remembered the first night she had looked into that darkness – no, into that light in his eyes – they were level and straight, kind and compassionate, without any ado, Her hands in His, offerings of comfort and concern for Her station, the concern she felt for those close to Her, each to their own heaven or hell, and the law of attraction began to build.”

“INTO MY OWN”

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”

“Love, our subject:”

“What do they think has happened, the old fools,”

“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”