Richard Wilbur Quotes

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.

In simplicity there is truth.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.