Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
W. S. MerwinSend me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way
W. S. MerwinTo succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.
W. S. MerwinPolitically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.
W. S. Merwin