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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Wilbur quotes: I die of thirst here at the fountainside.

I die of thirst here at the fountainside.

Richard Wilbur quotes: Outside the open windowThe morning air is all awash with angels.

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

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

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

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

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Richard Wilbur quotes: Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.

Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.

Richard Wilbur quotes: Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

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

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

Richard Wilbur quotes: 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?

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 quotes: To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle,When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

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 quotes: It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

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

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.

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 quotes: What's lightly hid is deepest understood,

What's lightly hid is deepest understood,

Richard Wilbur quotes: A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

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 quotes: All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.