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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I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?
Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to … ▶
The art of losing isn't hard to master. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.198, 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 … ▶
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.64, Macmillan

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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