But I am weary of The winter way of loving things for reaso… - Richard Wilbur

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But I am weary of
The winter way of loving things for reasons. — Richard Wilbur, from “Winter Spring,” New and Collected Poems (HBJ, 1988)

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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O connoisseurs of thirst, Beasts of my soul who long to learn to drink Of pure mirage, those prosperous islands are accurst That shimmer on the brink Of absence; auras, lustres, And all shinings need to be shaped and borne.

The tall camels of the spirit Steer for their deserts, passing the last groves loud With the sawmill shrill of the locust, to the whole honey of the arid Sun. They are slow, proud, And move with a stilted stride To the land of sheer horizon...

What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you.

But I am weary of The winter way of loving things for reasons. — Richard Wilbur, from “Winter Spring,” <i>New and Collected Poems</i> (HBJ, 1988) - Richard Wilbur

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