Richard Wilbur Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Richard Wilbur

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.434, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Truth, Lying, Party

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 your brains out.

  Richard Wilbur

  Sleep, Blow, Journey

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

  Richard Wilbur

  Beautiful, Self, Hands

  Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Song, Lonely, World

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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