James Merrill Quotes

American poet (1926–1995)

James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.

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Always that same old story—
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks.

Since it had never truly fit, why wear
The shoe of prose? In verse the feet went bare.