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Richard Wilbur Quotes
Page 1 of 1Richard Wilbur
March 1, 1921 -
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet
|  What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. | | 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. | | To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men. |
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