"Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the……" — Elizabeth Bishop

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

— 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 Book Quotes

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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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