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Quotes from North & South — Elizabeth Bishop

1911–1979 United States

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6 quotes

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

North & South (1946)

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

North & South (1946)

Icebergs behoove the soul
(both being self-made from elements least visible)
to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

North & South (1946)

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

North & South (1946)

This iceberg cuts its facets from within.
Like jewelry from a grave
it saves itself perpetually and adorns
Only itself.

North & South (1946)

Until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
And I let the fish go.

North & South (1946)

Attribution

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