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

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

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About Richard Wilbur

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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Alternative Names: Richard Purdy Wilbur

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The hanging apples distill their darkness.

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