Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?
Elizabeth Bishop
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?
Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.