Famous quotes containing the words stanley merwin, stanley and/or merwin:
“Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead
Again again with its pointless sound
When the moon finds them they are the color of everything”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“Ive tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. Id rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But Im sure I have contributed to false valuesas Stanley Woodward said, Godding up those ballplayers.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“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)