James Merrill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The day is breaking someone else's heart.
-- James Merrill

#Heart
In life, there are no perfect affections.
-- James Merrill

#Life #Perfect #Affection
But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
-- James Merrill

#Air #Play #Two
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

#Thinking #Voice #Imagination
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
-- James Merrill

#Communication #Parent #Strange
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

#Vocabulary #Fit #Arthur
The simplest science book is over my head.
-- James Merrill

#Book #Simplest
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
-- James Merrill

#Couple #Play #Trying
At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
-- James Merrill

#Dream #College #Thinking
Class is classlessness.
-- James Merrill

#Class

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