Quotes by : Elizabeth Bishop

Love's the sonstood stammering elocutionwhile the poor ship in flames went down

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today?....

How—I didn't know anyword for it—how "unlikely". . .How had I come to be here,like them, and overheara....

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.

...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones,icily....

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclenched....

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long....

all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different....