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Think of the long trip home. 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? What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? The tiniest green hummingbird in the world? To stare at some inexplicable old stonework, inexplicable and impenetrable, at any view, instantly seen and always, always delightful? Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too? And have we room for one more folded sunset, still quite warm?


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It was four years before Bishop addressed "Dear Miss Moore" as "Dear Marianne" and only then at the elder poet’s invitation. The friendship between the two women memorialized by an extensive correspondence (see One Art) endured until Moore's death in 1972.

She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950 the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956 the National Book Award winner in 1970 and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Elizabeth Bishop (February 8 1911 – October 6 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer.

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