Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres? -Elizabeth Bishop

 

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?


Comments

There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first?



This quote is just one of 4 total Elizabeth Bishop quotes in our collection. Elizabeth Bishop is known for saying 'Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?' as well as some of the following quotes.

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'.

Elizabeth Bishop
53

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?

Elizabeth Bishop
0
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres? -Elizabeth Bishop
0

Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

Elizabeth Bishop
0