From On Elizabeth Bishop, by Colm Toibin
GEORGE HERBERT
"Bishop expressed her admiration for George Herbert's 'absolute naturalness of tone,' saying that he had been 'the most important and lasting influence on me.' In interviews she mentioned what Coleridge had said of Herbert, 'that he wrote about the most fantastic things imaginable in perfectly simple everyday language. That is what I have tried to do.'"
From Chapter 8, Grief and Reason
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