108 Quotes by W. S. Merwin

What you remember saves you.

a lo largo de toda la juventud te estuve buscando sin saber lo que estaba buscando

We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night

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

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.