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)

“And so with that most rare conception, nothing.
What is it, after all, but something missed?”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“But ceremony never did conceal,
Save to the silly eye, which all allows,
How much we are the woods we wander in.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)