Richard Wilbur

"The Art of Poetry No. 22, in The Paris Review"

"Articles at Modern American Poetry"

"It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and who…"

"When a poet is being a poet — that is, when he is writing or thinking about writing — he cannot be concerned with anything but the making of a poem. If the poem is to turn out well, the poet cannot ha…"

"In each art the difficulty of the form is a substitution for the difficulty of direct apprehension and expression of the object. The first difficulty may be more or less overcome, but the second is in…"

"The World is Fundamentally a Great Wonder" : Richard Wilbur in Conversation with Arlo Haskell Littoral"

"Essays on a Wilbur poem"

"Writing poetry, then, is an unsocial way of manufacturing a thoroughly social product. Because he must shield his poetry in its creation, the poet, more than other writers, will write without recognit…"