W.S. Merwin Quotes

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
- W.S. Merwin

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.
- W.S. Merwin

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.
- W.S. Merwin

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
- W.S. Merwin

We become aware of the void as we fill it.
- W.S. Merwin

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
- W.S. Merwin

A large heart can be filled with very little.
- W.S. Merwin

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
- W.S. Merwin

Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color.
- W.S. Merwin

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
- W.S. Merwin

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
- W.S. Merwin

Before I travelled my road I was my road.
- W.S. Merwin

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
- W.S. Merwin