Quote of the Day (Elizabeth Bishop, on Dreaming Our Dreams)

 

“Oh, must we dream our dreams

and have them, too?

And have we room

for one more folded sunset, still quite warm?”— American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), “Questions of Travel” (1956)

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.