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...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..
— Elizabeth Bishop
Tags: poetry

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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
— Elizabeth Bishop
Tags: let-us, us, dangerous, dreams
I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world. If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately, your bones would begin to ache and your hand would burn as if the water were a transmutation of fire that feeds on stones and burns with a dark gray flame. If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn form the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
— Elizabeth Bishop North and South
Tags: poetry, at-the-fishouses
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