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One Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
- What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
- I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
- Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things…
- If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same…
- Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
- It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the…
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