The Pupil Quotes

“...and I was looking up
out of a time of late blessings”
― W.S. Merwin, The Pupil: Poems

“this is the white wind that
you cannot believe here it is
and the owl sails out to see whose
turn it is tonight to be changed”
― W.S. Merwin, The Pupil: Poems

“here is the known hand again knowing remembering
at night after the doubting and the news of age”
― W.S. Merwin, The Pupil: Poems

“we know
from the beginning that the darkness
is beyond us there is no explaining
the dark it is only the light
that we keep feeling a need to account for”
― W.S. Merwin, The Pupil: Poems

“How long ago the day is
when at last I look at it
with the time it has taken
to be there still in it”
― W.S. Merwin, The Pupil: Poems