James Merrill

James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.

Quotes
Father Time and Mother Earth, A marriage on the rocks.
 * Always that same old story—
 * "The Broken Home" (1966)

The shoe of prose? In verse the feet went bare.
 * Since it had never truly fit, why wear
 * "The Book of Ephraim" (1976)