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W. S. Merwin

(b. 1927– )

U.S. poet

“Inside this pencil crouch words that have never been written.”

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source: “The Unwritten,” in The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993), 250–51.

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“Any minute now I will make a knife out of a cloud.”

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source: “October,” in The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993), 32–33.

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“What I’m really interested in is not what I’ve written but what I haven’t written, the next poem, if there is one.”

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source: “A Conversation with W. S. Merwin,” Artful Dodge, 1982.

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