Quote of the Day (Richard Wilbur, on a Job of Poetry)

“One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontation.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), “The Art of Poetry No. 22” (interviewed by Peter A. Stitt, Helen McCloy Ellison and Ellesa Clay High), The Paris Review, Issue 72 (Winter 1977)