Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or wilbur:
“We are as often duped by diffidence, as by confidence.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I can’t forget
How she stood at the top of that long marble stair
Amazed, and then with a sleepy pirouette
Went dancing slowly down to the fountain-quieted square;”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)