Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?
Elizabeth BishopIt is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.
Elizabeth BishopBut 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