W.S. Merwin Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. from what we cannot hold the stars are made

2. I offer you what I have myPoverty

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

4. My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. The Lice

5. part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you The Shadow of Sirius

6. Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

7. So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words

8. Utterance"Sitting over wordsVery late I have heard a kind of whispered sighingNot farLike a night wind in pines or like the sea in the darkThe echo of everything that has everBeen spokenStill spinning its one syllableBetween the earth and silence Rain in the Trees