Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

• Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

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• The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

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• Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

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• What childishness is it that while there’s breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way round?

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• Come like a light in the white mackerel sky, come like a daytime comet with a long unnebulous train of words, from Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying.

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• All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.

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• The armoured cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

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• The ship’s ignored. The iceberg rises and sinks again; its glassy pinnacles correct elliptics in the sky. This is a scene where he who treads the boards is artlessly rhetorical.

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• The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

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• All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper – just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something’.

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• The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

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• The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

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• The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

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• What childishness is it that while there’s breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

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Elizabeth Bishop (14)

Birth:	8th February, 1911
Death:	6th October, 1979
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She was an American poet. Her first book, North & South, was first published in 1946 and won the Houghton Mifflin Prize for poetry. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for her collection Poems: North & South. A Cold Spring, the National Book Award for The Complete Poems, the National Book Critics' Circle Award in 1976, and many other distinctions and accolades for her work.

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