Elizabeth Bishop - Life Quotes

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What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined to rush
to see the sun the other way around?

Elizabeth Bishop

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Elizabeth Bishop

Life and the memory of it cramped,
dim, on a piece of Bristol board.

Elizabeth Bishop