Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
Elizabeth Bishop Quotes
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 round?
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| Birth: | 8th February, 1911 |
| Death: | 6th October, 1979 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She was an American poet. Her first book, North & South, was first published in 1946 and won the Houghton Mifflin Prize for poetry. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for her collection Poems: North & South. A Cold Spring, the National Book Award for The Complete Poems, the National Book Critics' Circle Award in 1976, and many other distinctions and accolades for her work.
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