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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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Elizabeth Bishop
Age: 68 †
Born: 1911
Born: February 8
Died: 1979
Died: October 6
Essayist
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Worcester
Massachusetts
Elisabeth Bishop
Regular
Temptation
Poet
Hours
Jobs
Many
Writing
Temptations
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I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
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It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.
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Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
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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
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
Someone loves us all.
Elizabeth Bishop
What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.
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Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.
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Something needn't be large to be good.
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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
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.
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It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
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Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.
Elizabeth Bishop
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
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
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Elizabeth Bishop
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop
Insomnia perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
Elizabeth Bishop
