Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop

• The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
• The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.
• What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
• The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
• 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'.
• The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
• Boundaries set you free, like the walls of a cathedral enclosing space for prayer and reflection.