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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 Giroux. |
"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 Giroux. |
"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 student of Blake."
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Sandpiper (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"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 Giroux. |
"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 Giroux. |
"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 Giroux. |
"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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