Separation Your absence has gone through me Like...... Quote by "W.S. Merwin"

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

Tags: poetry, loss, loneliness, influence

Other Quotes by "W.S. Merwin"

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.
— W.S. Merwin

Tags: poetry, love, immortality

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words
— W.S. Merwin

Tags: words, poetry

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
— W.S. Merwin

Tags: spanish-literature, poetry, modern-poetry, federico-garcia-lorca, contemporary-poetry

from what we cannot hold the stars are made
— W.S. Merwin

Tags: youth, stars, poetry

I offer you what I have my Poverty
— W.S. Merwin

Tags: the-way-to-the-river, poets-laureate, poetry