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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


#wanderlust #life

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


— Elizabeth Bishop


#description

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


— Elizabeth Bishop


#love #loyalty #family

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.


— Elizabeth Bishop


#little #out #pigs #stuck #their

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


#disaster #filled #hard #intent #losing

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


#bodies #breath #determined #life #other

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


— Elizabeth Bishop


#hat #his #man #only #shadow

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


#continents #countries #different #different countries #down

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


— Elizabeth Bishop


#cars #contrived #dangerous #dangerous thing #dreams






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Did you know about Elizabeth Bishop?

It was four years before Bishop addressed "Dear Miss Moore" as "Dear Marianne" and only then at the elder poet’s invitation. The friendship between the two women memorialized by an extensive correspondence (see One Art) endured until Moore's death in 1972.

She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950 the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956 the National Book Award winner in 1970 and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Elizabeth Bishop (February 8 1911 – October 6 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer.

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