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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 Gir...
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''The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray,
and mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.''
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sandpiper (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Gir...
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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...
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sandpiper (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Girou...
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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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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Seascape (l. 20-21). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giro...
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''this cartoon by Raphael for a tapestry for a Pope:''
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Seascape (l. 12). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux....
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''With crayons the child draws a rigid house
and a winding pathway. Then the child
puts in a man with buttons like tears''
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sestina (l. 27-29). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Girou...
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''I know what I know, says the almanac.''
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sestina (l. 26). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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''Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvellous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.''
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sestina (l. 37-39). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Girou...
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''The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.''
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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. "Sleeping Standing Up," st. 2, Poems: North and South a Cold Spring (1955).
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Little Exercise
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For Thomas Edwards Wanning
Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily
like a dog looking for a place to sleep in,
listen to it growling.
Think how they must look now, the mangrove keys
lying out there unresponsive to the lightning
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