American - Poet | February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979
The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
Elizabeth Bishop
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The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.
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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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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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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.
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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
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