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> [“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 twist in spite of our embarrassment. Costume and custom are complex. The headgear of the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/exchanging-hats-unfunny-uncles-who-insist-in-trying-on-a-lady-s-hat/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

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## More by Elizabeth Bishop

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/exchanging-hats-unfunny-uncles-who-insist-in-trying-on-a-lady-s-hat/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [“At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/at-the-fishhouses-although-it-is-a-cold-evening-down-by-one-of-the/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/i-am-sorry-for-people-who-can-t-write-letters-but-i-suspect-also-that/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/time-to-plant-tears-says-the-almanac-the-grandmother-sings-to-the/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/all-the-untidy-activity-continues-awful-but-cheerful/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/but-they-made-me-realize-more-than-i-ever-had-the-rarity-of-true/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [“Should we have stayed home and thought of here?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/should-we-have-stayed-home-and-thought-of-here/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/the-art-of-losing-isn-t-hard-to-master-so-many-things-seem-filled/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/the-armored-cars-of-dreams-contrived-to-let-us-do-so-many-a-dangerous/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/hoping-to-live-days-of-greater-happiness-i-forget-that-days-of-less/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [Someone loves us all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/someone-loves-us-all/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/open-the-book-the-gilt-rubs-off-the-edges-of-the-pages-and-pollinates/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/democracy-in-the-contemporary-world-demands-among-other-things-an/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/all-my-life-i-have-lived-and-behaved-very-much-like-the-sandpiper/)

[Elizabeth Bishop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bishop/)

> [“I leave a lovely opalescent ribbon: I know this.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bishop/i-leave-a-lovely-opalescent-ribbon-i-know-this/)

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