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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
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
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
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
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
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
Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.
"From The Diary Of An Orange Tree — Hanns Heinz Ewers
"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
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
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