Elizabeth Bishop Quotes
...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..
all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of dif...
Show MoreI have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,slightly, indifferently swinging above the ston...
Show MoreHow—I didn't know anyword for it—how "unlikely". . .How had I come to be here,like them, and overhea...
Show MoreThe armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be t...
Show MoreLove's the sonstood stammering elocutionwhile the poor ship in flames went down
Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclench...
Show MoreI never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it lo...
Show MoreOne has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.
