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Elizabeth Bishop on Wedding

1911–1979 United States

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2 quotes

From a magician's midnight sleeve
the radio-singers
distribute all their love-songs
over the dew-wet lawns.

North & South (1946)

Somebody embroidered the doily.
Somebody waters the plant,
or oils it, maybe. Somebody
arranges the rows of cans […]
Somebody loves us all.

Questions of Travel (1965)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Bishop (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.