It could be that there's only one word and it's all we need. It's here in this pencil. Every pencil in the world is like this.

W. S. Merwin

About W. S. Merwin

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William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s,...

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