Author: 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

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.

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

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

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'.

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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