You Can't Be Too Careful



From the topics.nytimes.com article on W.S. Merwin:


He has said that he used his initials because doing so seemed serious and adult, in the manner of T.S.Eliot and W.H. Auden.

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Could it be that the poet avoided his given name, William Stanley Merwin, because it is an anagram of "wearily immanent swill"?