Clear Quote by Richard Wilbur

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

— Richard Wilbur

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

— 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…

— Richard Wilbur

What's lightly hid is deepest understood,

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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;…

— 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…

— Richard Wilbur

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

— Richard Wilbur

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

— Richard Wilbur