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W. S. Merwin Quotes


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

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

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

 



Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: September 30, 1927

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