"Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The……" — Elizabeth Bishop
"Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house."
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35 Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
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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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More Almanac Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
— James Russell Lowell
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I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it…
— Ethel Merman
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The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party…
— John F. Kennedy
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Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but…
— Jeff Belanger
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Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's…
— Ellen Bass
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed…
— James Russell Lowell
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The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst…
— Tom DeMarco
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Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men…
— J. G. Ballard
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Seven star hotels, Maybach, movie sick. Big bitches, knock-kneed camel-toed groupie shit. Women walk around while security on camelback. Club…
— Busta Rhymes
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