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

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

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

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

Everything only connected by "and" and "and. — Elizabeth Bishop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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? — Elizabeth Bishop

Insomnia"

perhaps she's a daytime sleeper. — Elizabeth Bishop

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly. — Jonathan Galassi

Something needn't be large to be good. — Elizabeth Bishop

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

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

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

Someone loves us all. — Elizabeth Bishop

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

Screen porch in a tree. — Elizabeth Bishop

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

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