"Oh, must we dream our dreams and have…" — Elizabeth Bishop

"Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?"

— Elizabeth Bishop

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35 Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that…
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see…
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems,…
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and…
Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent…

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More Dream Quotes

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Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream… — Neil Armstrong
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the… — Gaston Bachelard

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