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Category: W.S. Merwin

What you remember saves you.

memories, remembrance, salvation

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.

immortality, love, poetry

On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree

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

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

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

from what we cannot hold the stars are made

poetry, stars, youth

I offer you what I have myPoverty

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

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

part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you

love, poetry, yearning

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

influence, loneliness, loss, poetry

A garden is made of hope.

garden, gardening, hope

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