"...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do.." — Elizabeth Bishop
"...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do.."
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Elizabeth Bishop
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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 Fears Quotes
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
— Adam Arkin
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual…
— Margaret Atwood
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
— Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
— Abu Bakr
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour…
— Honore de Balzac
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
— A. C. Benson
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man…
— Aeschylus
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