Wilbur Wright

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    The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or die. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    I can’t forget
    How she stood at the top of that long marble stair
    Amazed, and then with a sleepy pirouette
    Went dancing slowly down to the fountain-quieted square;
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
    —Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959)