"Odd that a thing is most itself when…" — Richard Wilbur

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— Richard Wilbur

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17 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.…
That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves…
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of…
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…
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…
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

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