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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

Elizabeth Bishop
Jobs, Writing, Temptation
Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Elizabeth Bishop
Writing, Doe, Written
Elizabeth Bishop, George Monteiro (1996). “Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

Elizabeth Bishop
Sorry, Writing, People

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

Elizabeth Bishop
Writing, Thinking, Littles

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop
Breakup, Art, Writing
Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

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