"Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are……" — Elizabeth Bishop
"Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved."
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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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What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation,…
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More Fall Quotes
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
— Saint Augustine
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
— Jane Austen
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
— Francis Bacon
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