"The pigs stuck out their little feet and…" — Elizabeth Bishop

"The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored."

— 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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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political… — Margaret Atwood
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the… — Saint Augustine
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever… — Pearl Bailey
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my… — Tyra Banks
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. — Count Basie
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself… — Saint Basil
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always… — Jane Addams

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