Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.
Elizabeth BishopAnd as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
Elizabeth BishopClose, 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.
Elizabeth Bishop