Richard Wilbur Quotes

Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes,Dislodging the earth crumbsAnd making crus...

birth
growth
life
nature
perfection

View quote image

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disap...

poetry

View quote image

If the king had given me for my ownParis, his citadel,And I for that must leave aloneHer whom I love...

The Misanthrope

love
paris

Related Authors

Poet

Born: 1921-03-01

Died: N/A

Richard Purdy Wilbur (1 March 1921 - 14 October 2017) was 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.More

Richard Wilbur Quotes

Related Authors

A. C. Benson

A. E. Housman

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Zagajewski

Adelaide Anne Procter

Adelaide Crapsey

Adrian Mitchell

Adrienne Rich

Agathon

Richard Wilbur

Poet