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...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..
More Elizabeth Bishop quotes
"One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.
"I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones,icily free above the stones,above the stones an...
"Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclenched ignorant against the sky!