Prose

Elizabeth Bishop

“I never left Cumberland Street without feeling happier: uplifted, even inspired, determined to be good, to work harder, not to worry about what other people thought.”

Elizabeth Bishop on what her eccentric mentor Marianne Moore taught her about writing:

Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop, at only twenty-four, on the power of poetry to pretend life into reality: