"I was made at right angles to the……" — Elizabeth Bishop
"I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so."
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35 Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop has 35 quotes on this site.
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that…
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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see…
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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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Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems,…
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
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I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and…
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Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent…
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It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside…
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Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are…
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the…
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People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction…
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