"Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody."

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Source : "Richard Wilbur, Winner of the 1957 Poetry Award for Things of This World". Acceptance Speech, www.nationalbook.org. 1957.

Richard Wilbur

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“Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.”
“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”
“I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.”

Source : Source: romancing-the-book.com
“How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.”
“Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.”

Source : "Fictional character: Huw Morgan". "How Green Was My Valley", www.imdb.com. 1941.
“I just devoured all of his [Buster Keatonâ€™s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. Heâ€™s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just soâ€¦sophisticated, even when you watch it today.”
“The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.”
“We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.”

Source : Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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