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
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
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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.
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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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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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I say nothing of father, for he is shrouded in a mystery I have never been able to penetrate. Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families. Slavery has no use for either fathers or families, and its laws do not recognize their existence in the social arrangements of the plantation.
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A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
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I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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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
