“I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.” HumansHas BeensHardWholeBearsSpeciesHard TimesIndifferentPessimisticTollsPoisoningHuman SpeciesRest Of LifeHaving A Hard TimePolar Bears Author:W. S. Merwin
“If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.” IfsThinkingWayHas BeensDifferentMightDecentBalancedMight Have BeenSetups Author:W. S. Merwin
“The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.” PeopleWayHas BeensGovernmentPastFailingTreatsVery GoodGreek Author:W. S. Merwin
“But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.” KnowsWritingHas BeensReasonPoliticalKnow HowWrittenAwfulPoetry IsNobody KnowsLove PoetryGood LoveBest PoetryGreatest Poetry Author:W. S. Merwin
“we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been” Has BeensForget Author:W. S. Merwin
“In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.” PeopleWorldHas BeensFormCultureCoursesLeftWaterGrowingInvolvedCreaturesRainGardenRiversPlantGuidesRecognitionRegionsTestamentLiving ThingsGardenerSmall Creatures Author:W. S. Merwin
“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” Has BeensMonthsSpringOctober Author:W. S. Merwin
