Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921) 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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“What’s lightly hid is deepest understood,”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“the earth falls
So in our hearts from brilliance,
Settles and is forgot.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“Or of the garden where we first mislaid
Simplicity of wish and will, forgetting
Out of what cognate splendor all things came
To take their scattering names;”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)