Quotes by Richard Wilbur - Page 1

What's lightly hid is deepest understood.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
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Odd that a thing is most itself when likened
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The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Art
Nature
Smile
Eye
Stoops
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Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Headache
Knows
Sex
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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Break Up
Heartbreak
I Miss You
Smile
Broken Heart
Lonely
Missing You
Two
Opposite
Me
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The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Inspirational
Bottles
Inspiration
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Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Inspirational
Morning
Angel
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Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Tuesday
Waiting
Writing
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Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Crafts
Mind
Steps
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Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Casting
Like You
Soul
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All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Ocean
Knows
Shore
Touched
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Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.
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Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Love
May
Pain
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It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Fancy
Tricks
Violence
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To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Truth
Lying
Party
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Rain
Rivers
Water
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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 / Poet
Lonely
Song
World
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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 / Poet
Hands
Heaven
Sight
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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 / Poet
Doors
Heaven
Pride
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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 / Poet
Poetry
Self
Talking
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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.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Common
Congress
Peculiar
Personal Things
Anonymous
Fundamental
Himself
Personal
Speaks
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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 / Poet
Morning
Fall
Honesty
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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 / Poet
Self
Talking
Writing
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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 / Poet
Heart
Rain
Summer
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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.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Order
Suffering
Thinking
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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.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Men
Sea
Thinking
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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 / Poet
Beautiful
Hands
Self
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We know what boredom is: it is a dull Impatience or a fierce velleity, A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude, To make or do. In the strict sense, of course, We invent nothing, merely bearing witness To what each morning brings again to light
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Morning
Boredom
Light
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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 / Poet
Journey
Blow
Sleep
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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.
Richard Wilbur / Poet
Audience
Congress
Doe
Mind
Persons
Self
Taught
Address
Admired
Constitute
Directly
Ideal
Neighbors
Whom
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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 / Poet
Passion
Shoes
Thinking
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