Best Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop (Top 10)
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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.
Elizabeth Bishop
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If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good oneâand the same goes for paintings.
Elizabeth Bishop
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Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.
Elizabeth Bishop
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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'.
Elizabeth Bishop
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I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! There is a magic made by melody: A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep To the subaqueous stillness of the sea, And floats forever in a moon-green pool, Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.
Elizabeth Bishop
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Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?
Elizabeth Bishop
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs—no regular hours, so many temptations!
Elizabeth Bishop
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?
Elizabeth Bishop
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
Elizabeth Bishop
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Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?
Elizabeth Bishop
More Elizabeth Bishop Quotes
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But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.
Elizabeth Bishop
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All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.
Elizabeth Bishop
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...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..
Elizabeth Bishop
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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?
Elizabeth Bishop
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
Elizabeth Bishop