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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 something'.
I know what I know, says the almanac.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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.
The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.... (more Elizabeth Bishop quotes)
| The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets (Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz and Sylvia Plath) by Adam Kirsch | |
| Conversations With Elizabeth Bishop (Literary Conversations Series) by Elizabeth Bishop and George Monteiro | |
| Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota De Macedo Soares by Carmen L. Oliveira and Neil K. Besner |
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