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Richard-wilbur

Richard Wilbur
(American Poet)

Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 6
Times favorited:: 3

Richard Purdy Wilbur , is an American poet. He is a former United States Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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Richard Wilbur

“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”

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Richard Wilbur

“The little dog lay curled and did not rise But slept the deeper as the ashes rose, And found the people incomplete”

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Richard Wilbur

“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.”

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Richard Wilbur

“What you hope for is that at some point of the pointless journey, indoors or out, and when you least expect it, right in the middle of your stride, like that, so neatly that you never feel a thing, the kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead and blow yo”

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Richard Wilbur

“To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.”

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Richard Wilbur

“That's what (Hill) died for, the right for people to protest. But I don't think a funeral is the right place or context in the way they are protesting. It's not something the family needs to hear, that we're glad your son's dead and that your minister is a whore.”

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