Richard Wilbur Quotes

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

One is but a shade of the other.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

Life is like an analogy.

People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

I was kind of like the Tito Santana of my era.

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

I look a bit like him.

He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.

It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

For like to like, the proverb saith.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

As lyke as one pease is to another.

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

You like that analogy? That was pretty good?

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.