Elizabeth Bishop

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored. ”

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 around? ”

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'. ”

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. ”