Emily Bernstein

“You too can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.”
― Mary Oliver, Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

“Then I remember: death comes before the rolling away of the stone.”
― Mary Oliver

“As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious
and full of detail: it wants to polish itself; it
wants to love another body; it is the only vessel in
the world that can hold, in a mix of power and
sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas,
ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue.”
― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems

“The language of the poem is the language of particulars.”
― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook