Quotes by Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur

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

Lonely

Song

World

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

Knows

Ocean

Shore

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.

Heart

Rain

Summer

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.

Men

Sea

Thinking

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

Composition

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

Rain

Rivers

Water

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.

Order

Suffering

Thinking

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

Fancy

Tricks

Violence

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.

Doe

Mind

Self

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Headache

Knows

Sex

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Angel

Art

Beautiful

Blow

Boredom

Bottles

Break Up

Broken Heart

Casting

Composition

Crafts

Doe

Doors

Eye

Fall

Fancy

Hands

Headache

Heart

Heaven

Honesty

I Miss You

Inspiration

Inspirational

Journey

Knows

Light

Like You

Lonely

Love

Lying

May

Men

Mind

Morning

Nature

Ocean

Odd

Order

Pain

Party

Passion

Poetry

Pride

Rain

Rivers

Sea

Self

Sex

Shoes

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Quotes by Richard Wilbur

Richard Wilbur

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.

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