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"For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its saying where executives
Would never want to tamper; it flows south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth."
a. W.H. Auden
b. Elizabeth Bishop
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Seamus Heaney
e. Robert Lowell
f. William Butler Yeats
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"For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its saying where executives
Would never want to tamper; it flows south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth."
a. W.H. Auden
b. Elizabeth Bishop
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Seamus Heaney
e. Robert Lowell
f. William Butler Yeats
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Elizabeth Bishop
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born
February 08, 1911
died
October 06, 1979
gender
female
place of birth
Worcester, Massachusetts, The United States
genre
Poetry
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Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956.
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop avg rating 4.42 — 1,253 ratings — published 1979 4 editions |
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Geography III: Poems by Elizabeth Bishop avg rating 4.40 — 187 ratings — published 1971 6 editions |
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One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop avg rating 4.43 — 114 ratings — published 1994 6 editions |
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Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop avg rating 3.79 — 112 ratings — published 2006 3 editions |
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The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop avg rating 4.10 — 90 ratings — published 1984 4 editions |
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Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell avg rating 4.14 — 63 ratings — published 2008 |
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Poems, Prose and Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, Lloyd Schwartz, Robert Giroux avg rating 4.77 — 39 ratings — published 2008 |
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Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop avg rating 4.52 — 27 ratings — published 1969 5 editions |
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Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop avg rating 4.50 — 12 ratings — published 1952 2 editions |
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"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.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---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 (One Art: Letters)
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
---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 (One Art: Letters)
"Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)"
— Elizabeth Bishop
— Elizabeth Bishop
"But he sleeps on the top of his mast
with his eyes closed tight.
The gull inquired into his dream,
which was, "I must not fall.
The spangled sea below wants me to fall.
It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all."
"
— Elizabeth Bishop
with his eyes closed tight.
The gull inquired into his dream,
which was, "I must not fall.
The spangled sea below wants me to fall.
It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all."
"
— Elizabeth Bishop
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