Happy birthday, Elizabeth Bishop! Here are some quotes from her writing.
“Oh, must we dream our dreams / and have them, too?”
“I was made at right angles to the world / and I see it so. I can only see it so.”
“Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.”
“[O]ne shouldn’t get too involved with people who can’t possibly understand one…”
John Madera's fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His criticism may be found in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.
