Elizabeth Bishop Quotes About Writing
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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.
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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.
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
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I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
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And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
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