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The Lice QUOTES

The Lice QUOTES

1 " My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice

2 " The gods are what has failed to become of us "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice

3 " On the door it says what to do to survive
But we were not born to survive
Only to live "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice

4 " Everything that does not need you is real "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice

5 " The Hydra calls me but I am used to it
It calls me Everybody
But I know my name and do not answer "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice

6 " The sun sets in the cold without friends
Without reproaches after all it has done for us
It goes down believing in nothing
When it has gone I hear the stream running after it
It has brought its flute it is a long way "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice

7 " How We Are Spared”

At midsummer before the dawn an orange light returns to the mountains
Like a great weight and the small birds cry out
And bear it up "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice

8 " A long time ago the lightening was practicing
Something I thought was easy "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice

9 " Looking East at Night”

Death
White hand
The moths fly at in the darkness

I took you for the moon rising

Whose light then
do you reflect

As though it came out of the roots of things
This harvest pallor in which

I have no shadow but myself "

― W.S. Merwin , The Lice