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> [The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/the-strength-of-the-genie-comes-from-being-in-a-bottle/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

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## Other authors on Genie

- [Aladdin 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/genie/aladdin/)

## More by Richard Wilbur

> [Odd that a thing is most itself when likened](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/odd-that-a-thing-is-most-itself-when-likened/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/writing-is-waiting-for-the-word-that-may-not-be-there-until-next/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/your-hands-hold-roses-always-in-a-way-that-says-they-are-not-only/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [What's lightly hid is deepest understood,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/what-s-lightly-hid-is-deepest-understood/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/oh-let-there-be-nothing-on-earth-but-laundry-nothing-but-rosy-hands/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [“the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/the-beautiful-changes-in-such-kind-ways-wishing-ever-to-sunder-things/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/writing-poetry-is-talking-to-oneself-yet-it-is-a-mode-of-talking-to/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/we-know-what-boredom-is-it-is-a-dull-impatience-or-a-fierce-velleity/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/that-s-the-main-business-of-the-poem-to-see-if-you-can-t-make-up-a/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/what-is-our-praise-or-pride-but-to-imagine-excellence-and-try-to-make/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/it-is-true-that-the-poet-does-not-directly-address-his-neighbors-but/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/step-off-assuredly-into-the-blank-of-your-mind-something-will-come-to/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/composition-for-me-is-externally-at-least-scarcely-distinguishable/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/i-would-feel-dead-if-i-didn-t-have-the-ability-periodically-to-put-my/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

> [“During my lunch hour, which I spent on a bench in a nearby park, the waitresses would come and sit beside me talking at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wilbur/during-my-lunch-hour-which-i-spent-on-a-bench-in-a-nearby-park-the/)

[Richard Wilbur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wilbur/)

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