“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.”

— Elizabeth Bishop

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American poet 1911–1979

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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there, and I would like it to be a nice place, polished, bright, glistening, and glorious.
Quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering, by T. A. Boyd 1957, pp. 3–4 ( Internet Archive https://archive.org/stream/professionalamat013190mbp/professionalamat013190mbp_djvu.txt, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=42Ohg0wKaWsC&pg=PA4&dq=%22I+object+to+people+running+down+the+future%22)
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
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“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.”

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