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Richard Wilbur Quotes

What’s lightly hid is deepest understood Picture Quote #1

It is always a matter, my darling,Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wishWhat I wished you before, but harder Picture Quote #1

Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven Picture Quote #1

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you Picture Quote #1

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art Picture Quote #1

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened Picture Quote #1

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Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you Picture Quote #1

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray Picture Quote #1

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know Picture Quote #1

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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 to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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What’s lightly hid is deepest understood (Richard Wilbur Quotes) It is always a matter, my darling,Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wishWhat I wished you before, but harder. (Richard Wilbur Quotes) Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven. (Richard Wilbur Quotes) What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you (Richard Wilbur Quotes) The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art (Richard Wilbur Quotes) Odd that a thing is most itself when likened (Richard Wilbur Quotes) Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you (Richard Wilbur Quotes) Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia (Richard Wilbur Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray (Richard Wilbur Quotes) All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know (Richard Wilbur Quotes) I would feel dead if I didn’t have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry (Richard Wilbur Quotes) 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 Quotes)