"What's lightly hid is deepest understood,"

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Source : Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Wilbur

#Understood Quotes

“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”
“The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.”

Source : Sir John Bowring (1824). “Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces”, p.48
“Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.”
“Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.”
“I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.”

Source : "Sarah Palin landed job at Fox News because 'she was hot and got good ratings': Roger Ailes". Interview with Frazier Moore, www.nydailynews.com. October 5, 2011.
“In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.”
“There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.”
“Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]”

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