W. S. Merwin Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by W. S. Merwin:

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
~W. S. Merwin


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


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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.
~W. S. Merwin


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