I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it. W. S. Merwin More Quotes by W. S. Merwin More Quotes From W. S. Merwin What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine. W. S. Merwin mine me seeing birthday As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should be sung in church, but they never were. W. S. Merwin never thought church writing I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible. W. S. Merwin think effort language poetry
