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Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979 / Massachusetts / United States)
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Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911, but spent part of her childhood with her Canadian grandparents after her father's death .. more >>
68 poems of Elizabeth Bishop
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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?''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. "Questions of Travel." Bishop, an avid traveler, spent the last 16 years of her life in Brazil.
 
  ''His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,

looking for something, something, something.
Poor bird, he is obsessed!''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sandpiper (l. 16-18). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Gir...
 
  ''The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray,
and mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sandpiper (l. 19-20). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Gir...
 
  The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
in a state of controlled panic, a stude...
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sandpiper (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Girou...
 
  ''Heaven is not like flying or swimming,
but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Seascape (l. 20-21). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giro...
 
  ''this cartoon by Raphael for a tapestry for a Pope:''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Seascape (l. 12). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux....
 
  ''With crayons the child draws a rigid house
and a winding pathway. Then the child
puts in a man with buttons like tears''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sestina (l. 27-29). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Girou...
 
  ''I know what I know, says the almanac.''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sestina (l. 26). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
 
  ''Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sestina (l. 37-39). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Girou...
 
  ''The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.''
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. "Sleeping Standing Up," st. 2, Poems: North and South a Cold Spring (1955).
 

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