Wilbur

Famous quotes containing the word wilbur:

“Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.

Some are in bed-sheets, some are in blouses,
Some are in smocks: but truly there they are.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“Great mammoths overthrown
Composedly have made their long sojourns,
Like palaces of patience, in the gray
And changeless lands of ice.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“We milk the cow of the world,”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)