And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, …

Elizabeth Bishop
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And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
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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. Pres … ▶
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?
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
What the Man-Moth fears most he must do. ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.16, Macmillan
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low … ▶

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