Christian Wiman Work Quotations

The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

If you had to put all your money on one living poet whose work will be read in a hundred years, Richard Wilbur would be a good bet.