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Richard Wilbur (March 1, 1921)
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Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.
Biography
Early years
Wilbur was born in New York City and grew up in North Caldwell, New Jersey. He graduated from Montclair... more »
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Quotations
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''As near and far as grass,
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra (l. 56-60). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Al...
Where eyes become the sunlight, and the hand
Is worthy of water: the dreamt land
Toward which all hungers leap, all pleasures pass.''
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''—the main jet
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra (l. 31-34). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Al...
Struggling aloft unti it seems at rest
In the act of rising, until
The very wish of water is reversed,''
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''A barn shall harbour heaven,
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. A Christmas Hymn (l. 7-8). . . Oxford Book of Christmas Poems, The. Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-C...
A stall become a shrine.''
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''And every stone shall cry,
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. A Christmas Hymn (l. 29-32). . . Oxford Book of Christmas Poems, The. Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart...
In praises of the child
By whose descent among us
The worlds are reconciled.''
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The following is my favorite Richard Wilbur poem. It awakened my love of poetry, especially the first stanza.
Many of us would be grateful if you added it to your Wilbur collection.
Two Voices in a Meadow – Richard Wilbur
A Milkweed
Anonymous as cherubs
Over the crib of God,
White seeds are floating
Out of my burst pod.
What power had I
Before I learned to yield?
Shatter me, great wind:
I shall possess the field
A Stone
As casual as cow-dung
Under the rib of God,
I lie where chance would have me,
Up to the ears in sod.
Why should I move? To move
Befits a light desire.
The sill of heaven would founder,
Did such as I aspire.