Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?
Elizabeth Bishop
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by Elizabeth Bishop Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
Insomnia, perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one, and the same goes for paintings.
Poem posted in Poems (Author's Poems)
Think of the long trip home.
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?
Where should we be today?
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play
in this strangest of theatres?
What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined to rush...