Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

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’.

Country

Running

Travel

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Awful

Cheerful

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Littles

Thinking

Writing

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs–no regular hours, so many temptations!

Jobs

Temptation

Writing

Bishop on “At the Fishhouses”At the last minute, after I’d had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI’d said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of “At the Fishhouses” came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I’d recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

Dream

Men

Real

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, “I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.

Dream

Fall

Sleep

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

Book

Heart

Sleep

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Democracy

People

Women

Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I’d dream of things like slitting a baby’s throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I’d have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs’ eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.

Baby

Dream

Islands

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Art

Breakup

Writing

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Angle

Art

Awful

Baby

Be Good

Beach

Believe

Body

Book

Breakup

Car

Care

Cheerful

Children

Color

Country

Dangerous

Dark

Daytime

Delicate Things

Democracy

Doe

Doors

Dream

Elements

Envy

Fall

Falling In Love

Feet

Fighting

Filled Up

Fingertips

Forget

Forgive Me

God

Grandmother

Hats

Heart

Heaven

Home

House

Insomnia

Intelligent

Islands

Jobs

Keys

Knowledge

Littles

Long

Looks

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Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

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’.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs–no regular hours, so many temptations!

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, “I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

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