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Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Oh, must we dream our dreamsand have them, too?

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

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: You are you and you are going to be YOU forever.

You are you and you are going to be YOU forever.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: I knew that nothing strangerhad ever happened, that nothingstranger could ever happen.

I knew that nothing stranger
had ever happened, that nothing
stranger could ever happen.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Everything only connected by "and" and "and.

Everything only connected by "and" and "and.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclenched ignorant against the sky!

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky!

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: I leave a lovely opalescent ribbon: I know this.

I leave a lovely opalescent ribbon: I know this.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: I was made at right angles to the worldand I see it so. I can only see it so.

I was made at right angles to the world
and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,
'the way one commits a crime.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Should we have stayed home and thought of here?

Should we have stayed home and thought of here?

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

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

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: ...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: The art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seemed filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster

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

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

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

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobsno regular hours, so many temptations!

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs
no regular hours, so many temptations!

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Screen porch in a tree.

Screen porch in a tree.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: 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?

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 quotes: Someone loves us all.

Someone loves us all.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one - and the same goes for paintings.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one - and the same goes for paintings.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

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

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Something needn't be large to be good.

Something needn't be large to be good.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Time to plant tears, says the almanac.The grandmother sings to the marvelous stoveand the child draws another inscrutable house.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: All the untidy activity continues,awful but cheerful.

All the untidy activity continues,
awful but cheerful.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Love's the sonstood stammering elocutionwhile the poor ship in flames went down

Love's the son
stood stammering elocution
while the poor ship in flames went down

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Insomnia"perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Insomnia"

perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Elizabeth Bishop quotes: Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?

Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?