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

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Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.300, Macmillan

Elizabeth Bishop

#World Quotes #Made Quotes #Angle Quotes

“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”
“He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.”
“I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.”
“I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour!”
“The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.”
“It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.”
“Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no holy wings: It stands with honest feet in honest dust, And is the body's blossoming in clear air Of trustfulness and joyance when alone Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair And claim that Paradise which is their own. Amid a universe of sweat and blood, Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate, Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood Of the loud world, in secret ere too late A gentle sacrament may celebrate Before their private altar of the good.”
“Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.”

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