Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? Elizabeth Bishop More Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop More Quotes From Elizabeth Bishop Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper. Elizabeth Bishop daytime sleepers insomnia Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream Elizabeth Bishop real dream men The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored. Elizabeth Bishop feet littles pigs It is what we imagine knowledge to be: Elizabeth Bishop dark knowledge moving