The best Quotes by W. S. Merwin

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Tell me what you see vanishing and I will tell you who you are.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

I grew up in Hawaii. My love of the natural world began here.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

Hawaii is the only place I know where they lay flowers on you while you are alive.

I have always been proud to have been born in Hawaii.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.

No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.

Edith Crawley: "[About the Titanic] I thought it was supposed to be unsinkable."
Robert Crawley: "Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it; so every ship is unsinkable until it sinks."

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

Silence is so freaking loud.

October is a symphony of permanence and change.

October is crisp days and cold nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.