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He was raised in Union City, New Jersey and Scranton, Pennsylvania, as the son of a Presbyterian minister, and began writing hymns as a child.
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His recent collections include The Shadow of Sirius which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize; Present Company (Copper Canyon, 2007); Migration: New & Selected Poems (2005) which won the 2005 National Book Award; The Pupil (2002); The River Sound (1999), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Flower and Hand: Poems 1977-1983 (1997); The Vixen (1996); and Travels (1993), which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
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There he married Paula Schwartz in a Buddhist ceremony in 1983.
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Merwin soon married his first wife, Dorothy Jeanne Ferry, and began writing verse plays and working as a tutor to the children of wealthy families.
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W. S. Merwin : The Poetry Foundation

Merwin has continued to produce striking poems using nature as a backdrop.
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Virginia Quarterly Review, summer, 1973; spring, 1997, review of Lament for the Makers, p.
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Tutor in France and Portugal, 1949; tutor of Robert Graves's son in Majorca, 1950; lived in London, England, 1951-54, supporting himself largely by doing translations of Spanish and French classics for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Third Programme; playwright for Poets' Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 1956; lived in New York, NY, 1961-63; associated with Roger Planchon's Theatre de la Cite, Lyon, France, ten months during 1964- 65; moved to Hawaii in the late 1970s.
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His next books increasingly show his preoccupation with the natural world.
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New Republic, March 22, 1999, review of The River Sound: Poems and The Folding Cliffs, p.
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New York Times Book Review, October 18, 1970; June 19, 1977; August 1, 1982; October 9, 1983; April 4, 1999, Melanie Rehak, "Poetic Justice"; June 6, 1999, review of The River Sound, p.
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W. S. Merwin: Biography from Answers.com

Read more Cite Houghton Mifflin Chronology of US Literature The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S.
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Migration (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) won the 2005 National Book Award for poetry.
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Auden (1971) Pablo Neruda (1972) Eugenio Montale (1973) Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1974) Léopold Sédar Senghor (1975) Eugène Guillevic (1976) Artur Lundkvist (1977) Rafael Alberti (1978) Miroslav Krleža (1979) Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1980) Blaže Koneski (1981) Nichita Stănescu (1982) Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' (1983) Andrey Voznesensky (1984) Yiannis Ritsos (1985) Allen Ginsberg (1986) Tadeusz Różewicz (1987) Desanka Maksimović (1988) Thomas W.
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Merwin is noted for his restrained, spare, sometimes remote, often elegiac, and always finely wrought verse.
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A life-long friend of James Wright, Merwin wrote an elegy to him that appears in the 2008 volume From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright.[original research?] The Shadow of Sirius, published in 2008 by Copper Canyon Press, was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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Merwin's collection features narrative poems based on historical figures such as Arthur Rimbaud, David Douglas, and Manuel Cordova.
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W.S. Merwin :: The Steven Barclay Agency

In July 2010, William Merwin was appointed United States Poet Laureate by the Librarian of Congress.
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Visit the Merwin Conservancy at:  http:// www.merwinconservancy.org/ "“The intentions of Merwin’s poetry are as broad as the biosphere yet as intimate as a whisper.
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His most recent poetry collections include Present Company (Copper Canyon), which won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Migration: Selected Poems 1951-2001 (Copper Canyon), which won the National Book Award, and The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (his second Pulitzer).
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His prose includes The Mays of Ventadorn, as part of the National Geographic Directions series, The Ends of the Earth (essays), and a memoir entitled Summer Doorways (Shoemaker & Hoard).
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Merwin, poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read — and imitated — poets in America.
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He is not only profoundly anti-imperialist, pacifist, and environmentalist, but also possessed by an intimate feeling for landscape and language and the ways in which land and language interflow.
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W.S. Merwin – Profile of the poet W.S. Merwin

When he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Carrier of Ladders, he donated the prize money to the antiwar cause in protest against the Vietnam War, sparking an angry response from Auden.Merwin as Buddhist and Environmentalist:Merwin moved to Hawaii in 1976 to study Zen Buddhism and he ended up remarrying and settling in Maui, where he has spent the years since restoring the land around his home to tropical rainforest.
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Merwin About.comEducationPoetry Poetry Search PoetryPoetsReading / Studying PoemsWriting Poetry Share Free Poetry Newsletter!Sign UpDiscuss in our forum W.S. MerwinBy Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com Guides See More About:w.s. merwinpoets laureatepoets against war Copper Canyon PressMore Images (2) Merwin’s Early Life:W.S.
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It’s a piece well worth reading.Books by W.S.
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When he was awarded the Academy of American Poets’ first $100,000 Tanning Prize (now known as the Wallace Stevens Prize) in 1994, The New York Times published a profile by Dinitia Smith, “A Poet of Their Own,” which clearly articulates the intersection of violence, pacifism, Buddhism and concern for the natural world in Merwin’s life, his family history, his experience at Naropa and in Hawaii, and of course his poetry.
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He has also collaborated with translators on collections of poetry from languages he does not himself speak (Urdu, Chinese, Sanskrit, Japanese, Persian, Vietnamese...), making their translations into poems in English.Merwin’s Poetry:Merwin’s first book of poems, A Mask for Janus, was chosen by W.H.
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Blackmur and his teaching assistant, John Berryman.Early Career in Europe:After college, Merwin married and moved to Europe, where he intended to make his living writing verse plays and teaching the children of the wealthy.
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Bill Moyers Journal . W.S. Merwin | PBS

There are no other words in which you mean it.
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Reading Rumi Poet Coleman Barks is also known for his translations of the great 13th century Islamic poet and teacher, Jalaladdin Rumi.
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MERWIN June 26, 2009 "When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything.
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Poems: Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace Read excerpts of writings collected from Maxine Hong Kingston's workshops with veterans and their families.
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In 2003, Barks appeared on NOW WITH BILL MOYERS, reading three of Rumi's poems.
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Merwin on the JOURNAL about poetry, life, the environment and the insights he's gained in 50 years as a poet, translator, and writer.
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W.S. Merwin - Welcome to English « Department of English, College ...

�i" | About John Wesley Powell--Background to "The Gardens of Zu�i" | On "Beginning" | On "Sun and Rain" | Merwin's "Notes for a Preface" | On "The Horse" | Merwin--On Political Poetry | Merwin--On Ecology | About the Vietnam War | Merwin--"What is American about American Poetry?" | Merwin on Poetic Meaning and Translating Dante | An Online Interview | Reviews of Merwin's Books | Bibliography | Online Poems | External Links | Compiled and Prepared by Cary Nelson Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index
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W.S. Merwin: Online Resources - Library of Congress ...

Merwin: Online Resources - Library of Congress Bibliographies, Research Guides,and Finding Aids (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)  The Library of Congress >> Researchers >> Virtual Programs & Services   Home >> U.S.
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To suggest additions to this guide, please contact the Digital Reference Section.
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Merwin, more than 30 full-text poems, audio recordings, and articles by and about Merwin.
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Merwin: Online Resources Created by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist W.S.
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38, The Paris Review, Issue 102 (Spring 1987) "A Conversation with W.S.
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Merwin at the 92nd Streey Y" (38:17) 92Y Blog, October 10, 2005 W.S.
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Poetry Pages - W. S. Merwin - The Atlantic — News and analysis ...

Increasingly he has been arrested by an intensely sensuous involvement with place.
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Return to: Atlantic Unbound's Poetry Pages An Audible Anthology Discuss this article in the Arts & Literature forum of Post & Riposte.
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His books include the memoir The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1955-1960 (1994) and The Poems of Peter Davison 1957-1995, recently published in paperback.
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Peter Davison is the poetry editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
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The tone and directness of his intentions are clearly declared at the outset of Travels in a poem called "Cover Note":             ...reader I do not know that anyone else is waiting for these words that I hoped might seem as though they had occurred to you and you would take them with you as your own It's that ingratiating tone that Merwin's poems take -- confiding, in the most private way, the most generous of concerns -- that has made him so welcome and frequent a visitor to The Atlantic Monthly's poetry pages.
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In his fourth book, The Drunk in the Furnace (1960), he turned toward American themes, after spending two years in Boston, where he got to know Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Donald Hall, and other poets who were breaking out of the rhetoric of the 1950s.
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W.S. Merwin - Literary History

"On poetry and the idea of nature." Nature in Merwin's "The Lice" and "Native," and in Marianne Moore.
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"Writing outside the self: the disembodied narrators of W.S.
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Merwin's "brave attempt to modernise Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." The Guardian, 21 February 2004.
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"The publication of Migration: New and Selected Poems provides us with the opportunity to track in a single volume W.S.
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"Aloud." Short introduction to Merwin from the Los Angeles Public Library: "W.S.
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And here we have no more eloquent witness than W.S.
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W. S. Merwin News - The New York Times

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MERWIN AND: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2000, BUSH, GEORGE W, GORE, AL SEARCH 24 ARTICLES ABOUT W.
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"I came to feel that punctuation was like nailing the words onto the page," he once explained.
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MERWIN AND: POETRY AND POETS, DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, SEASONS AND MONTHS, WALCOTT, DEREK Welcoming the LaureateConsidering his character, the newly named poet laureate, W.
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Merwin Navigator A list of resources from around the Web about W.S.
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MERWIN AND: POETRY AND POETS, EDITORIALS, BOOKS AND LITERATURE, POETS LAUREATE, AWARDS, DECORATIONS AND HONORS W.
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W.S Merwin

Litotes: Creation of a positive or opposite idea through negation.
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The son is acknowledging his failure to keep in touch, but does nothing about it.
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However this is short lived, the poem finishes in a still dark and dreary fashion but offers little in the way of climax.  Posted by Adam Blech at 11:45 AM 1 comments Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Unknown Bird by W.S Merwin Unknown Bird by W.
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Euphemism: The substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener.
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From the poems opening lines we, the readers get the sense of eminence, almost as is something significant will occur.
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We struggle to keep in touch and to hold together the fabric of our relationships, but sometimes and by our own actions, the struggle is futile.
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W. S. Merwin - Poems, Biography, Quotes

He was graduated from Princeton University and worked as a tutor in Europe and translator.From 1956 to 1957 Merwin was also playwright-in-residence at the Poet's Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts and poetry editor at The Nation in 1962.
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Merwin Biography Poems Quotes Books Popular Poets Langston Hughes Shel Silverstein Pablo Neruda Maya Angelou Edgar Allan Poe Robert Frost Emily Dickinson Elizabeth Barrett Browning E.
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Merwin Poems YesterdayAirMy FriendsFor The Anniversary Of My DeathUnknown Bird View all W.
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All Rights Reserved.The Poems and Quotes on this site are the property of their respective authors.
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About W.S. Merwin | The Merwin Conservancy

He received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his most recent collection, The Shadow of Sirius, widely praised as one of his finest books and lauded by one reviewer as “the irreducible essence of his art.” The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement will be awarded to Merwin in November 2010 Bibliography His first book, A Mask for Janus, was chosen by W.H.
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Merwin…gives a quiet weight to every word he touches and to the things those words name.
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Merwin | The Merwin Conservancy The Merwin Conservancy About the Conservancy Conservancy News The History of the Land and Home Partners Boards & Staff About W.S.
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He has been honored as laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Festival in Macedonia, receiving the international poetry award, the Golden Wreath Award.
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His Migration: New and Selected Poems won the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry and Present Company, which closely followed it, earned him the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress.
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Merwin is a laureate for our times, and we look forward to his tenure.”—The New York Times, July 3, 2010 To view an interview with W.S.
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W. S. Merwin - inprinthouston - Inprint!

He was first awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Carrier of Ladders in 1971 and won it again for The Shadow of Sirius in 2009, for which he also received the National Book Award.
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MERWIN, currently 17th Poet Laureate of the United States, was advised by John Berryman, while studying as an undergraduate at Princeton University, to “get down on your knees and pray to the muse every day.” Merwin seems to have taken the advice to heart.
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He conveys in the sweet simplicity of grounded language a sense of the self where it belongs, floating between heaven, earth, and the underground.” Merwin lives in Hawaii, where he cultivates endangered palm trees.
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Merwin 2011/2012 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Monday April 23, 2012 7:30 pm Hubbard Stage, Alley Theatre 615 Texas Avenue Directions & parking Tickets: $5, on sale here starting at noon on March 27, 2012   Reading followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing.
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Merwin - inprinthouston About Inprint Mission & Vision History Programs Staff Employment Board/Advisory Board Press Readings 2011/2012 Inprint Brown Reading Series Cool Brains!
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W.S. Merwin

Since the publication of A Mask for Janus, W.S.
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Merwin Merwin, W(illiam) S(tanley) Born: September 30, 1927, in New York City, New York Vocations: Poet, Translator, Short Story Writer, Autobiographer, Essayist, Playwright, Editor, Tutor Geographic Connection to Pennsylvania: Scranton, Lackawanna County Keywords: American Academy of Poets; W.H.
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Merwin’s real career as a poet, however, began in 1952 with the publication of A Mask for Janus, which W.H.
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From Origin to Ecology: Nature and the Poetry of W.S.
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In 1949, Merwin worked as a tutor in France and Portugal.
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Blackmur; he also began a correspondence with Ezra Pound that continued for several years.
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W. S. Merwin — Infoplease.com

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Merwin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation)(Book Review) (New Criterion) The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - 1994.
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Merwin.(Rhetoric and Poetics) (Style) Between the earth and silence: W.
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W.S. Merwin Biography -- Academy of Achievement

The following year the Library of Congress selected him to serve as the nation's 17th Poet Laureate.
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Prince, Harold Rather, Dan Richards, Lloyd Ride, Sally Rollins, Sonny Rosenquist, James Rozelle, Pete Russell, Bill Sachs, Albie Salk, Jonas Scholder, Fritz Schuller, Robert H.
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After leaving the Graves household, Merwin moved to London, where he made translations for the BBC, including the Spanish verse epic El Cid.
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Swank, Hilary Tan, Amy Taymor, Julie Te Kanawa, Kiri Teller, Edward Tharp, Twyla Thiebaud, Wayne Thomson, James A.
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Johnson, Philip Jones, Chuck Jones, James Earl Jones, Quincy Judd, Naomi Karzai, Hamid Kennedy, Anthony M.
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Two years later, Merwin published a brilliantly lucid memoir, Summer Doorways.
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The Writer's Almanac: W. S. Merwin - Men Untrained to Comfort by ...

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” —E.L.
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You can't stop it.” —William Carlos Williams “Writing is like getting married.
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Writing is my way of making other chances.” —Anne Tyler “Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig” —Stephen Greenblatt “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” —F.
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Doctorow “Writing is like driving at night in the fog.
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3, 2003 To a Friend Who Keeps Telling Me That He Has Lost His Memory Apr.
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