Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.

Elizabeth Bishop

How—I didn't know anyword for it—how "unlikely". . .How had I come to be here,like them, and overheara cry of pain that could havegot loud and worse but hadn't?

Elizabeth Bishop

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclenched ignorant against the sky!

Elizabeth Bishop