"Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze."

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Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.434, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Wilbur

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“Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.”
“The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.”
“I try to think professionally that my body is my job and just get up and do my modeling work, you always feel better after it.”
“With Neptune City, I could have been singing about anybody's life that grew up where I did. The town I live in it isn't that magical, but when you're growing up, you think that everything is so important.”
“I probably tweet every other day, which I know isn't half as much as some people.”
“No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.”
“Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.”
“Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!”

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