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“Please—take care of your health! Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs—no regular hours—so many temptations!”

letter to Robert Lowell, August 26, 1963, in Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 495.
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