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Elizabeth Bishop fue una poeta estadounidense, distinguida como poetisa laureada de los Estados Unidos y Premio Pulitzer de poesía en 1956. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. febrero 1911 – 6. octubre 1979  •  Otros nombres الیزابت بیشاپ
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Elizabeth Bishop: Frases en inglés

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”

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Elizabeth Bishop

Fuente: The Complete Poems 1927-1979

“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.”

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Elizabeth Bishop

“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,

Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.

Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”

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Elizabeth Bishop

Fuente: Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

“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.”

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“I was made at right angles to the world
and I see it so. I can only see it so.”

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Elizabeth Bishop

Fuente: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

“Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?”

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Elizabeth Bishop

“Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.”

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Elizabeth Bishop

Fuente: The Complete Poems 1927-1979

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

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Elizabeth Bishop

Poem: Late Air

“Why should I be my aunt,
or me, or anyone?
What similarities
boots, hands, the family voice
I felt in my throat, or even
the National Geographic
and those awful hanging breasts
held us all together
or made us all just one?”

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Poem: In the Waiting Room

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

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Poem: Sleeping standing up
Poems, North and South (1946)

“The big fish tubs are completely lined
with layers of beautiful herring scales
and the wheelbarrows are similarly plastered
with creamy iridescent coats of mail,
with small iridescent flies crawling on them.”

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Poem: At the Fishhouses

“The ancient owls' nest must have burned.
Hastily, all alone,
a glistening armadillo left the scene,
rose-flecked, head down, tail down”

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Poem: The Armadillo http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bishop.armadillo.html

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

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Poem: The Map
Poems, North and South (1946)

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