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.
The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle. - Richard Wilbur
The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.
- Richard Wilbur
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, an… - Richard Wilbur
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, an…
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, l… - 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, l…
Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you. - Richard Wilbur
Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday. - Richard Wilbur
Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.
All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know - Richard Wilbur
All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. - Richard Wilbur
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul. - Richard Wilbur
Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.
Most women know that sex isgood for headaches. - Richard Wilbur
Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.
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