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Richard Wilbur Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“And I, too, don’t know toward what undreamt condition inch by inch I go.”
— Richard Wilbur, A Measuring Worm
Tagged: Inspirational, The Adventing, Adventing, Evolution
“Joy’s trick is to supply dry lips with what can cool and slake, leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache nothing can satisfy.”
— Richard Wilbur, Hamlen Brook
Tagged: Joy, Never-ending Story, Searching For Joy
“Let me be touched by the alien hands of love forever, that this eye not be folly’s loophole but giver of due regard.”
— Richard Wilbur, Richard Wilbur: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Tagged: Love, Transcendental, Otherworldly Flows, Grace
“Because he swings so neatly through the trees, an ape feels natural in the word trapeze.”
— Richard Wilbur, “Because he swings"
Tagged: Wordplay, Shape Words, analysis, Linguistic Acrobatics, Onomatopoeias, (Example of Good Annotations?), Quote of the Moment, Psychomimes
“Even when death has taken an exceptional man, it is the common things which touch us.”
— Richard Wilbur, Richard Wilbur: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Tagged: Death, What We Remember When People Die
“I wish what I wished you before, but harder.”
— Richard Wilbur, The Writer
Tagged: Hope, prayer, Desire For A Different Outcome
“What is it in me that hates me?”
— Richard Wilbur, Richard Wilbur: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Tagged: Internal Struggle
“Remind me that I am here in a body, a passenger, and rumpled.”
— Richard Wilbur, Richard Wilbur: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Tagged: Body, Body Hosts
“It’s best when laundry ends up being dry.”
— Richard Wilbur, Some Words Inside Words
Tagged: Words Within Words, Word Clustering, Kangaroo Words, Wordplay
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