Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.
We are not born to survive. Only to live. - W. S. Merwin
We are not born to survive. Only to live.
- W. S. Merwin
Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time. - W. S. Merwin
Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
Now all my teachers are dead except silence. - W. S. Merwin
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to… - W. S. Merwin
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to…
I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here - W. S. Merwin
I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here
Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you'… - W. S. Merwin
Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you'…
Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of … - W. S. Merwin
Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of …
We are asleep with compasses in our hands. - W. S. Merwin
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. - W. S. Merwin
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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