What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“ONE ART The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Exchanging Hats Unfunny uncles who insist in trying on a lady's hat, --oh, even if the joke falls flat, we share your slight transvestite… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
“At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.” — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
“The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share
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