Bishop David

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“his shuddering insights, beyond his control,
touching him. But it took him a long time
finally to make his mind up to go home.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)