Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or wilbur:
“a meek humble Man of modest sense,
Who preaching peace does practice continence;
Whose pious life’s a proof he does believe,
Mysterious truths, which no Man can conceive.”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)
“All true enough: and true as well that she
Was beautiful, and danced, and is now dead.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)