“Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.” DoneHandsEarthHeavenClearSightRisingSteamLaundryRosy Book:Poems of Richard Wilbur Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur
“There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.” FallWaterMorningClearSeeingHonestyAll ThingsRingsClarityStaringHammersDeerBucketsProdigiousPoignancy Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004 Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
