Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

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"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'."

"I know what I know, says the almanac."

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

"The bight is littered with old correspondences."

"The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored."

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

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