Step off assuredly into the blank of your own mind. Somethi… - Richard Wilbur

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Step off assuredly into the blank of your own mind. Something will come to you. Although at first You nod through nothing like a fogbound prow, Gravel will breed in the margins of your gaze

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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the health of the sick, and, what mocked their sighing, Of the strange intactness of the gladly dying.

In my kind world the dead were out of range
And I could not forgive the sad or strange
In beast or man.

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