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.