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Richard Wilbur Quotes: A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.
         

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.


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



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The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.



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There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.



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

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



The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.



Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.



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





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