Merwin

Famous quotes containing the word merwin:

    The ghosts of the villages trail in the sky
    Making a new twilight
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    who should moor at his edge
    And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,
    But the hill of dark underfoot diving,
    Closing overhead, the cold deep, and drowning.
    He is called Leviathan, and named for rolling,
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack,
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)