W.S. Merwin

Quotes

• “I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One...”
• “So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believe...”
• “Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.”
• “Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for”
• “On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree”
• “from what we cannot hold the stars are made”
• “I offer you what I have myPoverty”
• “What you remember saves you.”
• “A garden is made of hope.”