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.
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
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
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations! - Elizabeth Bishop
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentr… - Elizabeth Bishop
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentr…
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 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.
Something needn't be large to be good. - Elizabeth Bishop
Something needn't be large to be good.
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 s… - 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 s…
I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so. - Elizabeth Bishop
I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.
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 i… - Elizabeth Bishop
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 i…
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 … - Elizabeth Bishop
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 …
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