What one wants in this world isn’t so much to ‘live’ as to…be lived, to be used by life for its own purposes.
James Merrill Quotes
Here one is in Later Life, and it’s perfectly pleasant really, not for a moment that garden of cactus and sour grapes I’d always assumed it must be.
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| Birth: | 3rd March, 1926 |
| Death: | 6th February, 1995 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City, New York, USA. He was an American poet. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays. He wrote several poems include: The Black Swan, Water Street, Nights and Days, The Fire Screen, Braving the Elements, The Yellow Pages, Divine Comedies(Won- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1977), Mirabell: Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant, The Changing Light at Sandover, Late Settings, and A Scattering of Salts. He wrote two novels, including The Seraglio and The (Diblos) Notebook.
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