I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
Elizabeth BishopDemocracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
Elizabeth BishopI am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.
Elizabeth BishopThink of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?
Elizabeth BishopBishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream
Elizabeth Bishop