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