Blackness Quote by Elizabeth Bishop

“Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.” quote by Elizabeth Bishop — Download Open image

“Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.”

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“Exchanging Hats Unfunny uncles who insist in trying on a lady's hat, --oh, even if the joke falls flat, we share your slight transvestite twist in spite of our embarrassment. Costume and custom are complex. The headgear of the other sex inspires us to experiment. Anandrous aunts, who, at the beach with paper plates upon your laps, keep putting on…

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“At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the gloaming almost invisible, a dark purple-brown, and his shuttle worn and polished. The air smells so strong of codfish it makes one's nose run and one's eyes water. The five fishhouses have steeply peaked roofs and…

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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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“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.”

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“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.”

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“Should we have stayed home and thought of here?”

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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 their loss is no…

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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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Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

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Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite…

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“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of course. Why this peculiar threat. These brooding psyches, all the busy minds everywhere. I hear them buzzing like flies in the blackness. I see them as glow worms flitting…

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You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so Po described…

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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only…

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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

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I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance to blackness that whiteness is able to throw up. I engage in a lot of intellectual combat with supremacists and with the predicate of white supremacy and white indifference to black identity, and brown and red…

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I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I…

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If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

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Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

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