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Richard Wilbur has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not…
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I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.
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They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine…
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The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man
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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not…
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