“I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsCertainSufferingOrderAbilityKnackInarticulate Author:Richard Wilbur
“That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.” IfsSelfPoetryLanguageTalkingFairs Author:Richard Wilbur
