Elizabeth Bishop Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Jobs, Writing, Temptation

  Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

• And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Writing, Thinking, Littles

• Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Breakup, Art, Writing

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

• I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Writing, Doe, Written

  Elizabeth Bishop, George Monteiro (1996). “Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Sorry, Writing, People

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