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Portrait of Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop 1911–1979

The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions. And then it stops and undertakes to answer in the same tone of voice. No one could tell the difference.

Uninnocent, these conversations start, and then engage the senses, only half-meaning to. And then there is no choice, and then there is no sense;

until a name and all its connotation are the same.

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