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

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

- 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…

- Richard Wilbur

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

- Richard Wilbur

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

- Richard Wilbur

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

- Richard Wilbur

Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.

- Richard Wilbur

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

- Richard Wilbur