Quote by: Elizabeth Bishop

How—I didn't know any word for it—how "unlikely". . . How had I come to be here, like them, and overhear a cry of pain that could have got loud and worse but hadn't?


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Author Bio


  • NameElizabeth Bishop
  • DescriptionAmerican poet
  • BornFebruary 8, 1911
  • DiedOctober 6, 1979
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry; Neustadt International Prize For Literature; National Book Award