“The fact is that no form belongs inevitably with any theme or attitude; no form is good or appropriate in itself, but any form can be made good by able hands.”

~ Richard Wilbur

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Today's poem:

To the Etruscan Poets
- by Richard Wilbur

Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young
Took with your mother's milk the mother tongue,

In which pure matrix, joining world and mind,
You strove to leave some line of verse behind

Like still fresh tracks across a field of snow,
Not reckoning that all could melt and go.

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Today's poem:

Year’s End
- by Richard Wilbur

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/738128557087375360/years-end?source=share

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Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Richard Wilbur

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43048/love-calls-us-to-the-things-of-this-world

The poet to his daughter

"Young as she is, the stuff
Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:
I wish her a lucky passage."

https://poets.org/poem/writer?mbd=1

The Writer, Richard Wilbur

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