Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilburis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 March 1921
CountryUnited States of America
nature art eye
The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.
pride doors heaven
What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?
understood
What's lightly hid is deepest understood,
violence fancy tricks
It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence
summer rain heart
Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.
soul casting like-you
Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.