Elizabeth Bishop Quote

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap,
but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.


Questions of Travel (1965)


Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.