"Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for"
- W.S. Merwin
"even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it"
"On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree"
"I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves whil..."