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One Art

Elizabeth Bishop

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1976
Pages
Pages 1

A poet practises the art of losing, keys first, then houses, cities and finally a person, insisting all the way down that it is no disaster, and the harder the poem insists the less you believe it.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
One Art, Elizabeth Bishop

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