"All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know"

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Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Wilbur

#Ocean Quotes #Shore Quotes

“Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.”
“He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals”
“I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.”
“Jesus had over death and we don't have to worry about death. We don't have to worry about where our loved ones are going if they know Jesus.”

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“And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much.”
“America has no functioning democracy at this moment.”
“A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.”
“It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures for their own sake. But to make conscious decisions and choices, and it includes this constant questioning - Why am I taking pictures? Because really, the world is... it has pictures enough. I mean, there are enough pictures out there.”

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