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"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?" |
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. "Questions of Travel."
Bishop, an avid traveler, spent the last 16 years of her life in Brazil.
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"His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,
looking for something, something, something.
Poor bird, he is obsessed!" |
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sandpiper (l. 16-18). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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