Elisabeth Bishop, que viveu no Brasil, assim comentou sobre um poema ("No Meio do Caminho") de Carlos Drummond de Andrade:

"The poem is simplicity itself. I choose to think that it symbolizes an
event that altered the course of the poet's life, but that's just me."

In the Middle of the Road

In the middle of the road there was a stone
there was a stone in the middle of the road
there was a stone
in the middle of the road there was a stone.

Never should I forget this event
in the life of my fatigued retinas.
Never should I forget that in the middle of the road
there was a stone
there was a stone in the middle of the road
in the middle of the road there was a stone.