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. MerwinI also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.
W. S. MerwinI will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
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