W.S. Merwin: Word

W.S. Merwin was American poet. Explore interesting quotes on word.

W.S. Merwin: 34 quotes9 likes

“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”

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

Source: The Lice

“Sitting over words
Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
Not far
Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
The echo of everything that has ever
Been spoken
Still spinning its one syllable
Between the earth and silence”