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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• I'm an early-morning owl.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.

  

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• I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient and super independent. It's awesome. I love it!

  

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• So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

  

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• The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

  

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• Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

  

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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