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1. "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" ~ W.S. Merwin
2. "Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca." ~ W.S. Merwin
3. "We are asleep with compasses in our hands." ~ W.S. Merwin
4. "A BIRTHDAY Something continues and I don't know what to call itthough the language is full of suggestionsin the way of languagebut they are all anonymousand it's almost your birthday music next to my bonesthese nights we hear the horses running in the rainit stops and the moon comes out and we are still herethe leaks in the roof go on dripping after the rain has passedsmell of ginger flowers slips through the dark housedown near the sea the slow heart of the beacon flashesthe long way to you is still tied to me but it brought me to youI keep wanting to give you what is already yoursit is the morning of the mornings togetherbreath of summer oh my found onethe sleep in the same current and each waking to youwhen I open my eyes you are what I wanted to see." ~ W.S. Merwin
5. "On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree" ~ W.S. Merwin
6. "The story of each stone leads back to a mountain." ~ W.S. Merwin
7. "I had hardly begun to readI asked how can you ever be surethat what you write is reallyany good at all and he said you can'tyou can't you can never be sureyou die without knowingwhether anything you wrote was any goodif you have to be sure don't write" ~ W.S. Merwin
8. "come backbeliever in shadebeliever in silence and elegancebeliever in fernsbeliever in patiencebeliever in the rain" ~ W.S. Merwin
9. "Inside this pencilcrouch words that have never been writtennever been spokennever been taughtthey're hidingthey're awake in theredark in the darkhearing usbut they won't come outnot for love not for time not for fireeven when the dark has worn awaythey'll still be therehiding in the airmultitudes in days to come may walk through thembreathe thembe none the wiserwhat script can it bethat they won't unrollin what languagewould I recognize itwould I be able to follow itto make out the real namesof everythingmaybe there aren'tmanyit could be that there's only one wordand it's all we needit's here in this pencilevery pencil in the worldis like this" ~ W.S. Merwin
10. "Send me out into another lifelord because this one is growing faintI do not think it goes all the way" ~ W.S. Merwin
11. "You grieveNot that heaven does not exist butThat it exists without us" ~ W.S. Merwin
12. "We begin to say something that cannot be said. When you see on the front page a woman in Iraq who's just seen her husband blown up, you see her there, her mouth wide open, you know the sound coming out of her, a howl of grief and pain -- that's the beginning of language.Trying to express that, it's inexpressible, and poetry is really to say what can't be said. And that's why people turn to it in these moments. They don't know how to say this, [but] part of them feels that maybe a poem will say it. It won't say it, but it'll come closer to saying it than anything else will.I think there are always two sides, and one of them is the unsayable. The utterly singular. Who you are; who you can never tell anybody. And on the other hand, there is what you can express. How do we know about this thing we talk about? Because we talk about it. We're using words. And the words never say it, but the words are all we have to say it." ~ W.S. Merwin
13. "For a Coming ExtinctionGray whaleNow that we are sending you to The EndThat great godTell himThat we who follow you invented forgivenessAnd forgive nothingI write as though you could understandAnd I could say itOne must always pretend somethingAmong the dyingWhen you have left the seas nodding on their stalksEmpty of youTell him that we were madeOn another dayThe bewilderment will diminish like an echoWinding along your inner mountainsUnheard by usAnd find its way outLeaving behind it the futureDeadAnd oursWhen you will not see againThe whale calves trying the lightConsider what you will find in the black gardenAnd its courtThe sea cows the Great Auks the gorillasThe irreplaceable hosts ranged countlessAnd fore-ordaining as starsOur sacrificesJoin your word to theirsTell himThat it is we who are important" ~ W.S. Merwin
14. "My cradlewas a shoe." ~ W.S. Merwin
15. "After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it." ~ W.S. Merwin
16. "Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture." ~ W.S. Merwin
17. "...The silence of a place where there were once horsesis a mountainand I have seen by lightning that ever mountainonce fell from the airringinglike the chime of an iron shoe..." ~ W.S. Merwin
18. "I try to hear you remembering that we are not separateto find you who cannot be lost or elsewhere or incomplete" ~ W.S. Merwin
19. "he suggested I pray to the Museget down on my knees and prayright there in the corner and hesaid he meant it literally" ~ W.S. Merwin
20. "I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere" ~ W.S. Merwin
21. "part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you" ~ W.S. Merwin
22. "My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy." ~ W.S. Merwin
23. "Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color." ~ W.S. Merwin
24. "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" ~ W.S. Merwin
25. "I offer you what I have myPoverty" ~ W.S. Merwin
26. "What you remember saves you." ~ W.S. Merwin

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What I am, it is useless to say - those whom it concerns feel and find it out. To all others I wish only to be an obscure, steady-going private character."
Author: Charlotte Brontë

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