Elizabeth Bishop Poem Quotes

#1. I did a short film at Outfest, 'Where Are the Dolls,' based on an Elizabeth Bishop poem done, where I play this woman who is sort of walking the streets and ends up alone dancing in a club. I have this hot and heavy scene with a very beautiful actress. It became very popular.

Megan Follows

#2. Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

Ishmael Reed

#3. The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Think ere you speak

Valerie Tripp

#5. They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Martin Luther

#6. Jane, nice to meet you! I'm Amabella's mum, and I have Jackson in Year 2. That's Amabella, by the way, not Annabella. It's French. We didn't make it up.

Liane Moriarty

#7. I draw him closer by his tie and whisper into his ear, Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life.

Stephanie Perkins

#8. One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,
'the way one commits a crime.

Elizabeth Bishop

#9. DON'T GO BUYING TROUBLE.
IT'S FREE AND IT KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE.
- T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#10. My idea of vacuuming is borrowing someone's dog for the day and having them eat all the crap off the floor.

Karina Halle

#11. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death.

Cassandra Clare

#12. How - I didn't know any
word for it - how "unlikely" ...
How had I come to be here,
like them, and overhear
a cry of pain that could have
got loud and worse but hadn't?

Elizabeth Bishop

#13. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles you.

Elena Ferrante

#14. If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one - and the same goes for paintings.

Elizabeth Bishop

#15. Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.

Patrick McGrath

#16. Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky!

Elizabeth Bishop