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It is true that the poet does ...

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 back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Most women know that sex isgoo...

Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Try to remember this: what you...

Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

What you hope for Is that at s...

What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

A thrush, because I'd been wro...

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Your hands hold roses always i...

Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Teach me, like you, to drink c...

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

The strength of the genie come...

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

What is our praise or pride bu...

What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Writing is?waiting for the wor...

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

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Writing poetry is talking to o...

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, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Outside the open window The mo...

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

What's lightly hid is deepest ...

What's lightly hid is deepest understood,

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

There is a poignancy in all th...

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 bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Whatever pains disease may bri...

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

The eye is pleased when nature...

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

Caught Summer is always an ima...

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 beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

That's the main business of th...

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 being fair to each other.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

It is not tricks of sense But ...

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

What power had I
before I...

What power had I
before I learned to yield?
Shatter me Great Wind!
I shall possess the field!
Richard Wilbur
a stanza from his poem To A Milkweed.

Richard Wilbur 35 quotes

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