W. S. Merwin Quotes

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning

W. S. Merwin

• Father
• Morning
• Matter
• Stars
• Course
• Emptiness
• Drift

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• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  

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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

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• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

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• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

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• We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

  

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• Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.

  

  Larry Elder
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• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
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• Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.

  

  Kara Swisher
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• The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

  

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

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  • Matter
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• I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

  

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• I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

  

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• Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

  

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• My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

  

  Yvette Clarke
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• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  

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• The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with a loving Father in Heaven and our Savior in the celestial kingdom with our families. We can obtain eternal life only through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.

  

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• The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

  

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• I'm a card-carrying nerd, a gamer, and sci-fi geek.

  

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• I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

  

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• If something knocks you five degrees out of whack, the journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step ends up thousands of miles away from its intended destination. 1

  

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• Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Father
  • Morning
  • Matter