Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Quote of the Day (Elizabeth Bishop, With Her Credo)


“I believe:
that the steamship will support me on the water,
& that the aeroplane will conduct me over the mountain,
that perhaps I shall not die of cancer,
or in the poorhouse;
that eventually I shall see things ‘in a better light,’
that I shall continue to read and continue to write,
that I shall continue to laugh until I cry with a certain few friends,
that love will unexpectedly appear over & over again,
that people will continue to do kind deeds that astound me.”—Elizabeth Bishop, notebook entry quoted in Brett C. Miller, Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It (1993)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was born 100 years ago on this day.

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