Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many…

Elizabeth Bishop
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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 Robert Lowell
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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
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. Pres … ▶
Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.91, Macmillan
Bishop on At the FishhousesAt the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theyc … ▶

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 Robert Lowell

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