Elizabeth Bishop Quote | Knowledge & Wisdom

“Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.”

—Elizabeth Bishop (born February 8, 1911, in Worcester, Massachusetts; died October 6, 1979, in Boston). The U.S. poet laureate from 1949 to 1950, Bishop received a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring and a National Book Award in 1970 for The Complete Poems.