Wilbur

Famous quotes containing the word wilbur:

    “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)

    “The tall camels of the spirit
    Steer for their deserts,”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “Yet the things themselves
    in thoughtless honor
    Have kept composure,”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)