Yes, death is far less dire to contemplate Than a forced ma… - Richard Wilbur

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Yes, death is far less dire to contemplate
Than a forced marriage to an unloved mate

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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