The sea curling
Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still
As at first it was, is the hand not yet contented
Of the Creator. And he waits for the world to begin.


'Leviathan' (1956)

W. S. Merwin Quotes

The sea curling Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still As at first it was, is the hand not yet contented Of the Creator. And he waits...

The sea curling Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still As at first it was, is the hand not yet contented Of the Creator. And he waits...

The sea curling Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still As at first it was, is the hand not yet contented Of the Creator. And he waits...

The sea curling Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still As at first it was, is the hand not yet contented Of the Creator. And he waits...