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 fable, which is naturally and truly composed, so as to satisfy the imagination, ere it addresses the understanding, beautiful though strange as a wild-flower, is to the wise man an apothegm, and admits of his most generous interpretation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)