Monday, December 31, 2012

Quote of the Day (Richard Wilbur, on the ‘Dying of the Year’)



“Now winter downs the dying of the year,  
And night is all a settlement of snow;
From the soft street the rooms of houses show  
A gathered light, a shapen atmosphere,  
Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thin  
And still allows some stirring down within.”—Richard Wilbur, “Year’s End

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