Author: Elizabeth Bishop

Cited by

• Paul Durcan (1)
  • IN: Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil (1999) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
    FROM: Letter from Elizabeth Bishop to Anne Stevenson, (1964), Letter, US
• Meg Haston (1)
  • IN: Paperweight (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (write it!) disaster.
    FROM: One Art, (1976), NULL, US
• Melissa Banks (1)
  • IN: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 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 loved 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!) like disaster.
    FROM: "One Art", from The Complete Poems, (1994), Poem, US
• de Kretser, Michelle (1)
  • IN: Questions of Travel (2012) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: But surely it would have been a pity Not to have seen the trees along this road, really exaggerated in their beauty
    FROM: Questions of Travel, (1965), Poem, US
• Dennis Lehane (1)
  • IN: Shutter Island (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …must we dream our dreams and have them, too?
    FROM: Questions of Travel, (1965), Poem, US
• C. S. Richardson (1)
  • IN: The End of the Alphabet (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Think of the long trip home, Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today?
    FROM: Questions of Travel, (1965), Book, US
• Michael Chabon (1)
  • IN: A Model World (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: More delicate than the historians' are the map makers' colors
    FROM: The Map, (1935), Poem, US
• Claire Messud (1)
  • IN: When the World was Steady (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is it lack of imagination that makes us come to imagined places, not just stay at home? Or could Pascal have been not entirely right about just sitting quietly in one's room? Continent, city, country, society: the choice is never wide and never free. And here, or there... No. Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?
    FROM: "Questions of Travel", (1965), Poem, US