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Richard Wilbur quotes

American Poet March 1, 1921

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Richard Wilbur quote: "It is always a matter, my darling, Of life or death, as I had..."
It is always a matter, my darling, Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish. What I wished you before, but harder. 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 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
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
Richard Wilbur quote: "Outside the open window. The morning air is all awash with..."
Outside the open window. The morning air is all awash with angels. Richard Wilbur
Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of snow; From the soft street the rooms of houses show. A gathered light, a shapen atmosphere, Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thin. And still allows some stirring down within. Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur quote: "A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song. In..."
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
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men. Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur quote: "What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you."
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur quote: "All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the..."
All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know Richard Wilbur
Step off assuredly into the blank of your own mind. Something will come to you. Although at first You nod through nothing like a fogbound prow, Gravel will breed in the margins of your gaze Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur quote: "Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out..."
Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul. Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur quote: "Odd that a thing is most itself when likened"
Odd that a thing is most itself when likened Richard Wilbur

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