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Elizabeth Bishop Quotes: 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.
         

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!

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!



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'.

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.

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.



If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.



What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.



I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?



Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.



All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.



Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.



Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?





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I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.



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Brains are no substitute for judgement.



One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.



Satan's greatest fear is that you would believe what God said about you.

Satan's greatest fear is that you would believe what God said about you.



No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.



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Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune



Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?



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To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)




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