William Stanley Merwin

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    Where he gets his spirits
    It’s a mystery. But the stuff keeps him musical:
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    The sea curling,
    Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still
    As at first it was, is the hand no yet contented
    Of the Creator. And he waits for the world to begin.
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)