William Stanley Merwin

William Stanley Merwin

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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time... Prose is about something, but poetry is about what can't be said. Why do people turn to poetry when all of a sudden the Twin Towers get hit, or when their marriage breaks up, or when the person they love most in the world drops dead in the same room? Because they can't say it.

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