"The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art."

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Source : Richard Wilbur (2004). “Collected Poems, 1943-2004”, p.395, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Wilbur

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“I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much moreâ€¦ I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because Iâ€™m committed to life.”
“One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.”
“Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.”
“Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.”

Source : John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com
“It is not half so important to know as to feel.”
“No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.”

Source : Song: Circle, 1972
“Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away.”
“Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.”

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