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Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

– 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?

– Elizabeth Bishop

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.

– Elizabeth Bishop

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

– Elizabeth Bishop

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

– Elizabeth Bishop

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper – just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something’.

– Elizabeth Bishop

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