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Mary Oliver
“Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?”
“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.I want to be light and frolicsome.I want to be improbable beautiful...
“I Go Down To The ShoreI go down to the shore in the morningand depending on the hour the wavesare rolling in or moving ...
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
“The Uses Of Sorrow(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)Someone I loved once gave mea box full of darkness.It took me years ...
“Snow was falling,so much like starsfilling the dark treesthat one could easily imagineits reason for being was nothing ...
“Instructions for living a life.Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it.”
“Still, what I want in my lifeis to be willingto be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of factsand maybe evento float a li...
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lo...
“to live in this worldyou must be ableto do three thingsto love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour ...
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
