Richard Wilbur Quotes

• Most women know that s*x is good for headaches.

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

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• All night, this headland Lunges into the rumpling Cape work of the wind.

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

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• Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.

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• The soul shrinks From all that it is about to remember, From the punctual rape of every blessed day.

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• Outside the open window The morning air is all a wash with angels.

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• Forgive the hero, you who would have died Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide To Ararat; all men are Noah’s sons.

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• We milk the cow of the world, and as we do We whisper in her ear, ‘You are not true.’

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

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Richard Wilbur (12)

Birth:	1st March, 1921
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.

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