Quotes by Richard Wilbur

About Richard Wilbur:

Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.
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Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

Richard Wilbur

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

Richard Wilbur

Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes, Dislodging the earth crumbs And making crusty rubble. it comes up bending double, And looks like a green staple. It could be seedling maple, Or artichoke, or bean. That remains to be seen. Fo...

Richard Wilbur

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.

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 audien...

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.

Richard Wilbur

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Wilbur
  • DescriptionPoet
  • BornMarch 1, 1921
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Translator
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Rome Prize; Bollingen Prize; National Medal Of Arts; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry; National Book Award