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You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours. — William Hurt

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

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

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

I die of thirst here at the fountainside. — Richard Wilbur

I would rather die of love than let love die. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. — Francis Beaumont

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic. — George Carlin

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

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

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. — Richard Wilbur

Writing is the new reading — Emlyn Hall

Most women know that sex isgood for headaches. — Richard Wilbur

With enough coffee anything is possible — Karen Salmansohn

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know — Richard Wilbur

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. — Richard Wilbur

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. — Alison Bechdel

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

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened — Richard Wilbur

Young as she is, the stuff / Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: / I wish her a lucky passage. — Richard Wilbur

Beauty is the spirit of the soul. Beauty is the spirit of love. — Saba Tekle

Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do. — Ryan Robbins

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray ... — Richard Wilbur

It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar. — Anne Rice

Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.

"From The Diary Of An Orange Tree — Hanns Heinz Ewers

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

Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason. — Amit Ray

What's lightly hid is deepest understood, — Richard Wilbur

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

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 not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence — Richard Wilbur

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers. — Arthur Hailey

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