I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all …

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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. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop, George Monteiro (1996). Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations! ✨ Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Ro … ▶
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
It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rac … ▶
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (1962). LIFE WORLD LIBRARY BRAZIL

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop, George Monteiro (1996). Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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