Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.
Elizabeth BishopRead
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Interpretation
Losing is a skill that can be learned and understood rather than something to fear.
In this quote, Elizabeth Bishop conveys that the experience of losing, whether it be in relationships, competitions, or other aspects of life, is not inherently negative but rather an art form that can be mastered over time. It suggests that once we accept loss as a natural part of life, we can approach it with grace and understanding, allowing us to cope better with our emotions and circumstances.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech about resilience.
Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.
I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?
It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rackety, icy, offshore wind numbed our faces on one side; disrupted the formation of a lone flight of Canada geese; and blew back the low, inaudible rollers in upright, steely mist.
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.
If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.
As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
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