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James Merrill

James Merrill

American Poet

Born: Mar 3, 1926

Died: Feb 6, 1995

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Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

In life, there are no perfect affections. James Merrill

Life Perfect Affections

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication. James Merrill

Strange Communication Problems Parents Easy Easy Access About Daunting Access Them

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline. James Merrill

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. James Merrill

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. James Merrill

Hope Young Sense Universe Too Possible Some Vocabulary Could Schematic Scheme Most Fit Arthur Fascinating Images

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? James Merrill

Think Blake Like Scientists Did Us Newton Need

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