Sestina By Elizabeth Bishop Quotes & Sayings

Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house. — Elizabeth Bishop

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied. — Benjamin Graham

I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man. — Toby Kebbell

If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy. — Robert Muller

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment. — Max Lucado

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured. — Galileo Galilei

Bishop on "A Miracle for Breakfast" and Sestina Technique
It seems to me that there are two ways possible for a sestina. One is to use unusual words
as terminations, in which case they would have to be used differently as often as
possible - as you say, "change of scale." That would make a very highly seasoned kind of
poem. And the other way is to use as colorless words as possible - like Sidney, so that it
becomes less of a trick and more of a natural theme and variations. I guess I have tried to
do both at once. — Elizabeth Bishop

God is the shield of the nonviolent. — Mahatma Gandhi