Directly Address Quotes by Richard Wilbur

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• Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
• Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
• All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
• I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think…
• 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…
• It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who…
• What's lightly hid is deepest understood,
• There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the…
• Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.
• The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.
• Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In…
• What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

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