Historical Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Elizabeth Bishop

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

— Elizabeth Bishop

“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.”

— 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.”

— Elizabeth Bishop

“Should we have stayed home and thought of here?”

— 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…

— Elizabeth Bishop

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Someone loves us all.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

— Elizabeth Bishop