Wilbur

Famous quotes containing the word wilbur:

    The end will come quickly, my love. There is a pain beyond pain, an agony so intense it shocks the mind into instant oblivion. We’ll find immortality together, for they’ll remember me through you.
    —Crane Wilbur (1889–1973)

    Forgive the hero, you who would have died
    Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide
    To Ararat; all men are Noah’s sons.
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    A devil told me it was all the same
    Whether to fail by spirit or by sense.
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)