"What childishness is it that while there's breath……" — Elizabeth Bishop
"What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?"
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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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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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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 Bodies Quotes
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one of 1,801 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
— Jim Bishop
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies.…
— Brandon Boyd
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