You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to it, comes to be given a kind of arbitrary but persistent importance. W. S. Merwin Read Quote
I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time… it is a kind of joy in being alive in being in the world. I always found that in the garden. That is what it means to me. W. S. Merwin Read Quote
I can’t imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it’s of no importance. W. S. Merwin Read Quote
He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was a great one for laying down the law about how you did anything. W. S. Merwin Read Quote
Democracy’s got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it’s certain the alternatives are not better. W. S. Merwin Read Quote
