Wilbur

Famous quotes containing the word wilbur:

“If the juggler is tired now, if the broom stands
In the dust again, if the table starts to drop
Through the daily dark again, and though the plate
Lies flat on the table top,
For him we batter our hands
Who has won for once over the world’s weight.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“The rare original heartsblood goes,
Spends on the earthen hide, in the folds and wizenings, flows

In the gutters of the banked and staring eyes.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“An underground grower, blind and a common brown;
Got a misshapen look, it’s nudged where it could;
Simple as soil yet crowded as earth with all.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)