#Elizabeth Bishop

[mournfulroses]

Elizabeth Bishop, from The Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop; "The Burglar of Babylon,"

#lit #elizabeth bishop #the burglar of babylon #doomed love #writings #poetry #p

[firstfullmoon]

Elizabeth Bishop, “Breakfast Song”

#my love my saving grace your eyes are awfully blue early and instant blue !!!! #w #poetry #elizabeth bishop #the earth was made for lovers

[apoemaday]

One Art

by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster,

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three beloved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

— Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster.

#poetry #elizabeth bishop #one art

[catsofyore]

Elizabeth Bishop and her cat, Minnow. Source.

#cat #cats #catsofyore #Elizabeth Bishop #child #grey cat

[metamorphesque]

One Art, Elizabeth Bishop

#quotes #literature #poems #poetry #elizabeth bishop #one art #classic literature

[bitch-we-have-a-hulk]

#elizabeth bishop #lota de macedo soares #miranda otto #gloria pires #reaching for the moon #flores raras #their chemistry is insane #i've watched it so many times

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

Reaching for the Moon (2013) dir. Bruno Barreto

The Shampoo by Elizabeth Bishop

The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks. They have arranged to meet the rings around the moon, although within our memories they have not changed.

And since the heavens will attend as long on us, you've been, dear friend, precipitate and pragmatical; and look what happens. For Time is nothing if not amenable.

The shooting stars in your black hair in bright formation are flocking where, so straight, so soon? --Come, let me wash it in this big tin basin, battered and shiny like the moon.

#miranda otto #gloria pires #reaching for the moon #flores raras #elizabeth bishop #lota de macedo soares #poetry #notsosecretlyalesbian #my gifs #filmedit #filmgifs #movieedit #moviegifs #wlwsource #lgbtq #i just love them a lot okay? #the ending destroys me every time #but i promise you it's worth the watch!

[sashayed]

The Shampoo

The still explosions on the rocks, the lichens, grow by spreading, gray, concentric shocks. They have arranged to meet the rings around the moon, although within our memories they have not changed.

And since the heavens will attend as long on us, you’ve been, dear friend, precipitate and pragmatical; and look what happens. For Time is nothing if not amenable.

The shooting stars in your black hair in bright formation are flocking where, so straight, so soon? – Come, let me wash it in this big tin basin, battered and shiny like the moon.

Elizabeth Bishop 1955

#poetry #national poetry month #elizabeth bishop

[martianbugsbunny]

insp.

#having a good time on canva dot com #it's kinda giving hunter pov to me??? mans life really falls apart over the course of the show tbh #bad batch #the bad batch #tbb hunter #tbb tech #tbb wrecker #tbb omega #tbb echo #tbb crosshair #one art #elizabeth bishop #star wars #wrecker #tech #crosshair #echo #hunter #omega #martianbugsbunny edits

[derangedrhythms]

Elizabeth Bishop, North & South ⁠— A Cold Spring; from ‘Argument’

#elizabeth bishop #north & south a cold spring #argument #poetry #excerpts #absence #distance

[canesenzafissadimora]

Il tumulto del cuore insiste a far domande. Poi smette e si accinge a rispondere nello stesso tono di voce. Nessuno noterà la differenza… E poi non c’è più scelta e poi non c’è più senso finché un nome e tutto quel che implica coincidono.

#elizabeth bishop

[mournfulroses]

Elizabeth Bishop, from The Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop; "Sandpiper,"

#lit #elizabeth bishop #poetry #selected poems of elizabeth bishop #sandpiper #p

[firstfullmoon]

when elizabeth bishop said “when you write my epitaph, you must say I was the loneliest person who ever lived”

#:-( #w #elizabeth bishop #there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am

[apoemaday]

Rain Towards Morning

by Elizabeth Bishop

The great light cage has broken up in the air, freeing, I think, about a million birds whose wild ascending shadows will not be back, and all the wires come falling down. No cage, no frightening birds; the rain is brightening now. The face is pale that tried the puzzle of their prison and solved it with an unexpected kiss, whose freckled unsuspected hands alit.

#poetry #elizabeth bishop #rain towards morning

[thelastofthebookworms]

This was supposed to be a French poetry poll. I'll make one, I promise, but I was distracted by the ladies (I think I'll make at least a Amy Lowell's poll and a Renee Vivien one too later, also under my 'sapphic poetry' tag)

They may not be the ones you would have picked yourself, they're some personal favorites.

Feel free to share yours, though !

Anne Hathaway

XVI (Twenty-one love poems)

Fireworks

One Art

Lighthouse Keeping

The Love of Judas

Wild Geese

For the Goddess Too Well Known

Blest as the Immortal Gods

#polls #sapphic poetry #poetry #anne hathaway #carol ann duffy #twenty one poems #adrienne rich #fireworks #amy lowell #one art #elizabeth bishop #lighthouse keeping #kay ryan #the love of judas #natalie clifford barney #wild geese #mary oliver #for the goddess too well known #elsa gidlow #blest as the immortal gods #sappho

[motifcollector]

Elizabeth Bishop, "Casabianca," after the poem of the same name by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

#elizabeth bishop #poetry #literature #on love