Richard Wilbur Quotes
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
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Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
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All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
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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 inarticulate…
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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 them…
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It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the…
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What's lightly hid is deepest understood,
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There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a…
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Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.
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The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.
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Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to…
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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
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Odd that a thing is most itself when likened
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Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.
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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 that,…
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Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.
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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most…
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