All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on … - Richard Wilbur

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

Richard Wilbur

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Richard Purdy Wilbur (1 March 1921 - 14 October 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.

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