Richard Wilbur Quotes

"What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you."
- Richard Wilbur
(Related: Lonely)

"It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self."
- Richard Wilbur
(Related: Congress, Mind, Neighbors, Self)