Quotation by Elizabeth Bishop

How had I come to be here,
like them, and overhear
a cry of pain that could have
got loud and worse but hadn't?
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), U.S. poet. In the Waiting Room (l. 86–89). . .

The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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