"Odd that a thing is most itself when likened"

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Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Wilbur

“Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.”
“I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.”
“I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.”
“The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.”
“Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.”
“I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.”

Source : Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.19, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.”
“Our mantra was simplicity.”

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