Mary Oliver
American · 1935–2019
Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet whose luminous, accessible verse celebrated the natural world and the practice of attention as a form of devotion.
Wikipedia ↗“You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.”
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Wild Geese ↗ (1986)
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
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The Summer Day ↗ (1990)
“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
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When Death Comes ↗ (1992)
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
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Thirst ↗ (2006)