Wilbur

Famous quotes containing the word wilbur:

    All true enough: and true as well that she
    Was beautiful, and danced, and is now dead.
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    I’m going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the streets to tell their friends how wonderful it is to be scared to death.
    —Crane Wilbur (1889–1973)

    Wisely watch for the sight
    Of the supernova burgeoning over the barn,
    Lampshine blurred in the steam of beasts, the spirit’s right
    Oasis, light incarnate.
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)