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“part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you”

Love Poetry Yearning

Book:The Shadow of Sirius

Source: The Shadow of Sirius

“Utterance" Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence”

Book:The Rain in the Trees

Source: The Rain in the Trees

“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 while there's still time.”

Love Poetry Immortality

Author:W.S. Merwin

“To remember Is not to rehearse, but to hear what never Has fallen silent.”

Memory Dead Language

Book:Green With Beasts

Source: Green With Beasts

“Please one more kiss in the kitchen before we turn the lights off”

Love Wish Loss Grief Marriage Kiss Kitchen

Book:The Essential W.S. Merwin

Source: The Essential W.S. Merwin

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