Richard Wilbur Quotes
What is the opposite of two?A lonely me, a lonely you.

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

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Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

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Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

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

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

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Step off assuredly into the blank of your own mind. Something will come to you. Although at first You nod through nothing like a fogbound prow, Gravel will breed in the margins of your gaze

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Now winter downs the dying of the year,And night is all a settlement of snow;From the soft street the rooms of houses showA gathered light, a shapen atmosphere,Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thinAnd still allows some stirring down within.

-Richard Wilbur
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