“What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodie...” — Elizabeth Bishop Quote

“What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?”

“The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.”

“The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.”

“The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.”

“I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,”

“All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.”

“The visible is always connected to the invisible. Things go always together like souls inside the bodies.”

“We're always learning about our bodies and learning how to take care of them properly and how to perform at our best.”

“Every single sport works out your body in a different way, and you can almost point out their bodies - like, that's a swimmer, that's a football player.”

“We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.”

“More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.”

“American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.”