Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least vi…

Elizabeth Bishop
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop, The Imaginary Iceberg
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What the Man-Moth fears most he must do. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.16, Macmillan
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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
I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.300, Macmillan
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop, The Imaginary Iceberg

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