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

Quote by Elizabeth Bishop

Book:Poems

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This book is a compilation of poems that explore a wide range of subjects and emotions, showcasing the beauty and depth of the poetic form. more

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Elizabeth Bishop

American poet known for her unique poetic style and profound insights into life. Elizabeth Bishop's works are renowned for their concise, straightforward language and rich emotional expression. more

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“Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.”

Forget Greater Passing Passings Passing By

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“Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?”

World Art Lasts Pieces Huge Lows Intimate Works Of Art Delicate Roaring Delicate Things

Book:Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

Source: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

“Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bishop

“The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.”

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Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.”

Color West Maps Makers Historian Delicate Display Topography

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?”

Way Stories Pages Sentences Ridiculous Hated Insult Embarrassment Blushing Salinger

Author:Elizabeth Bishop

“Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.”

People Sometimes Enough Fall Stupid Intelligent Falling In Love Stupid People

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“What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.”

Want Art Self Seems Creation Useless Concentration Forgetful

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

Writing Doe Written

Book:Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop

Source: Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop

“What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe”

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