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)

“A barn shall harbour heaven,
A stall become a shrine.”
—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)