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Elizabeth Bishop
23 quotes
“This iceberg cuts its facets from within. Like jewelry from a grave it saves itself perpetually and adorns Only itself.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Late Air". First published in Partisan Review, vol. 5, no. 3 (Aug.–Sep. 1938), p. 64
“Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, element bearable to no mortal, to fish and to seals...”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The big fish tubs are completely lined with layers of beautiful herring scales and the wheelbarrows are similarly plastered with creamy iridescent coats of mail, with small iridescent flies crawling on them.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Questions of Travel". First published in The New Yorker (Jan. 14, 1956)
“Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sestina". First published in The New Yorker (Sep. 15, 1956)
“The ancient owls' nest must have burned. Hastily, all alone, a glistening armadillo left the scene, rose-flecked, head down, tail down.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The staring sailor that shakes his watch that tells the time of the poet, the man that lies in the house of Bedlam.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Somebody embroidered the doily. Somebody waters the plant, or oils it, maybe. Somebody arranges the rows of cans […] Somebody loves us all.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why should I be my aunt, or me, or anyone? What similarities— boots, hands, the family voice I felt in my throat, or even the National Geographic and those awful hanging breasts— held us all together or made us all just one?”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How had I come to be here like them, and overhear a cry of pain that could have got loud and worse but hadn’t?”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Home-made, home-made! But aren’t we all?”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands like frogs’ eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And Friday, my dear Friday, died of measles seventeen years ago come March.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 disaster.Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One Art". Also in The New Yorker (Apr. 26, 1976)
“Life and the memory of it so compressed they've turned into each other.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source