Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less h…

Elizabeth Bishop
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
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Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.58, Macmillan
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Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (1962). LIFE WORLD LIBRARY BRAZIL

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