Merwin

Famous quotes containing the word merwin:

    Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
    When the last fires will wave to me
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    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)